Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sell the idea to Gillette, but when the agency included a slide of the billboard as comic relief in its sales pitch at last summer's outdoor advertising convention in St. Louis, the boys instantly recognized it as just the thing to stimulate what they like to call "billboard awareness." Donnelly to date has sold 1,500 of the 24-panel posters to billboard owners in all 50 states at $8.50 each...
Anyone who wants a fast and finely painted introduction to what is going on in the U.S. art world need only pay a call at Manhattan's Stable Gallery this week. On view are nine oils by Lowell Nesbitt, 34, one of the nation's most highly regarded younger painters. His subject matter: the interiors of six studios belonging to other artists. By meticulously representing their working environments, Nesbitt functions as a reporter; in effect, he achieves a visual essay on how the contemporary artist lives, thinks and works...
...Good morning, Mr. Phelps..." it begins, and then outlines the task: recover something crucial that has been stolen or prevent the supervillains from achieving some dastardly scheme. At the end of the recording the tape destroys itself in a pouf of smoke. The fact that a phone call, meeting or even a note left on a park bench would be less conspicuous hardly bothers M:I addicts...
...Wilt Chamberlain flick in a basket, or Bart Starr throw that beautiful bomb. It is the thing that hockey fans go to see-whether in Chicago, Montreal or Oakland. And it is the thing that makes Bobby Hull the superstar of his blazing sport. A legion of partisans call him "the Golden Jet" and "Mr. Hockey," regard him as the greatest player of this or any other day-and rare is the expert who says them...
Faced with the clear threat of a state wide walkout in October, Kirk agreed to call a special session of the legislature. That session began Jan. 29 and ended two weeks ago, after passing a bill providing for about $250 million in new taxes (on beer, liquor, cigarettes and other sales). State officials argued that the new appropriations would provide teachers with an average increase of $1,340 per year. Despite this generous offer, the F.E.A. insisted that the funds would not provide any real improvement in classroom conditions; too much of the new tax money, the association says...