Word: brands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Georgia legislature because of his admiration of draft-card burners, acknowledges he is "looking for a good job." He has not been paid his $85-a-week salary for two months. Other "older" S.N.C.C. officials may follow. Trusty financial contributors are slipping away, repelled by Carmichael's brand of racism. The organization no longer has a friendly working relationship with Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which is opposed to Carmichael's philosophy and irritated by his financial fecklessness. Though S.N.C.C., King's group and the Congress of Racial Equality were supposed to share...
...elections proved at least that in Chicago, whose pugnacious brand of politics has earned it the sobriquet "City of Clout," Daley will still have plenty at his disposal when, as expected, he seeks a fourth four-year term next spring...
...week's end Ky demonstrated another brand of toughness, which was welcomed by the U.S. Roaring inflation had threatened to rip the fabric of South Vietnamese society: food prices had risen 85% in 18 months, overall prices as much as 130%. Announcing a basic overhaul of the economy, Ky devalued the piastre by nearly half, loosened import restrictions to create more price-cutting competition, raised the salaries of military and government workers from 20% to 30%. They are the people who have been hardest hit by the inflation, and the people who matter most in the severe fighting...
...professional tournaments. The reason, according to James Van Alen, 63, president of the tennis Hall of Fame, is the sport's 85-year-old scoring system, which belabors spectators with archaic terminology ("love," "deuce," "advantage"), places no time limit on the duration of a match, and encourages a brand of play-the wham-slam "big game"-that often makes the match a bore to watch. Van Alen's answer: a totally different scoring system called VASSS (for Van Alen Simplified Scoring System), which he invented in 1957 but really tried for the first time in a pro tournament...
...bathtubs since rings," he says, snatching every conversational gambit from a store of one-line gags that often sound like a prelude to a friendly word from his sponsor. As Hope's mop-topped maid, Phyllis cleans up the house, dirties up the jokes, and delivers her own brand of kitcheny self-deprecation. There is never the slightest doubt that her next job will be a sell-out nightclub engagement in Vegas, and any viewer who thinks that's funny may be able to swallow the whole wretched show...