Word: crack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seeking Fast Relief. The consumer groups went to court partly because of their impatience with the slow pace of FTC actions against questionable advertising. Only after ten years of dickering did the commission crack down on the J.B. Williams Co.'s claims that its Geritol and FemIron remedy tiredness, loss of strength or nervousness. The FTC turned the case over to the Justice Department, which is suing for $1,000,000 in penalties against Williams and its agency, Parkson Advertising. Similarly, the FTC has been investigating the advertising promises of Excedrin, Anacin, Bufferin, Bayer, St. Joseph aspirin and other...
...processes. they are now contributing to it. They have read "the problem of street people living in the Square" as the "problem of street people living in the Square ruining business," and with such obvious myopia, it is inevitable that their solution to the problem has been to crack down on street people's means of livlihood in the Square: where they sleep and how they eat, as well as to fill the Square with police. The situation, thus drawn in black and white, is neatly polarized. And as Wednesday night shows, in the end the merchants, through the police...
...people that the Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. employs to make glass in Toledo, only 200 are members of the "minority" group that makes up more than half the city's population. Just like their fellow workers, they want overtime pay and a crack at the tough jobs that lead to advancement. But because they are women, a state law bars them from working more than nine hours a day or six days a week and from regularly lifting more than 25 lbs. The women also charge that company policy makes them the last hired and first fired. Taking their...
...suiting up for his 13th glamorous event, the Pirates' Roberto Clemente said: "To hell with the All-Star Game. I can use the rest." Roberto, who pleaded a "pain in the neck," finally agreed to play-but only after National League President Charles ("Chub") Feeney threatened to crack down on cop-outs. Al Kaline and Dick McAuliffe of the Detroit Tigers had themselves scratched from the A.L. roster because of disabling injuries. Two days before the All-Star encounter, though, both men recovered long enough to play against the Baltimore Orioles...
Lighter Side. Literary lunacies abound. Under "Shakespeare and the Computers" is a revelation from an Enfield College of Technology scholar who used a computer to crack the cipher of the sonnets. Solution: Shakespeare was really Edward VI, who, contrary to popular belief, died at 125 instead of 16 after writing all of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and Don Quixote...