Word: chip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chip" Bohlen, about to leave for Paris as U.S. ambassador there, supplied a significant clue. Talking to Kennedy, he recalled a Lenin adage that Khrushchev is fond of quoting: If a man sticks out a bayonet and strikes mush, he keeps on pushing. But when he hits cold steel, he pulls back...
...worse. Some 375 billion stamps will leave their glue on American tongues in 1962. They will be issued under about 300 different names, but 90% of them will come from one of the eight big stamp companies: S & H Green Stamps, Top Value, Plaid Stamps, Gold Bond, Frontier, Blue Chip, King Korn, Triple S. The goods for which they were redeemed in 1961 amounted to approximately $800 million worth (at list prices), and included 14% of the heating pads, 8% of the toasters and 4% of the coffeemakers sold in the U.S. Stamps may be issued along with any transaction...
...lies not in the creative side of advertising but in meticulously efficient administration of his sprawling organization. Like Strouse, who wears a toothbrush mustache and half-rimmed glasses, Thompson exudes an air of solid dependability. It shuns the hard sell to turn out orthodox, convincing ads for such blue-chip clients as Ford, Kodak and Kraft Foods. Strouse became the third chief executive in Thompson's 84-year history in 1960, when he was hurdled over 84 other vice presidents to succeed Stanley Resor, then 81, who had run the agency for 44 years. The self-educated...
...Regis for something on the cool side-the debut of Pianist Peter Duchin, 25, son of the late Eddy Duchin, whose soft-toned renderings of pop classics were the rage with the last generation's carriage trade. Among those on hand to launch the new chip were Peter's godparents, former New York Governor and Mrs. Averell Harriman (he calls her "Ma"), NBC's Robert Sarnoffs, and Mrs. Henry Ford II, all of whom dug Duchin's tinkling into the small hours. But Dad might not have been pleased. "I think he would have preferred that...
...Goldberg would seem likely to make the court lopsidedly liberal. Only a few months ago, New Frontiersman Byron White succeeded Charles Evans Whittaker, a Republican of conservative leanings, tipping the wobbly balance between liberal and conservative blocs. With Frankfurter gone, the old conservative bloc is now reduced to a chip: Tom Clark and John Marshall Harlan, occasionally joined by Potter Stewart...