Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cosmetics & Interest. So saying, the President took a crack at Madison Avenue, Washington's favorite whipping boy. The consumer's choice of products, said he, is influenced by "mass advertising utilizing highly developed arts of persuasion. The consumer typically cannot know whether drug preparations meet maximum standards of safety, quality and efficiency. He usually does not know how much he pays for consumer credit . . . whether the performance of a product will in fact meet his needs; or whether the 'large economy size' is really a bargain...
Behind by four and a half points, Princeton needed an upset over Yale's crack medley team in the final event. The first three Tigers compiled a half-pool lead over Yale by the anchor leg; then Mike Austin, who earlier had set an NCAA record in the 50 and a meet record in the 100, staged an amazing rally and came to within a body length of catching Princeton's Dick Williams, who had had a 12-yard lead. Austin's split for the 100 was 47.2, and his record in the event an hour earlier...
George II & All That. After selling his life story to the News of the World (for a reported $40,000), Alfie settled back to crack the laws of England. In the course of researching Alfie's abstruse legal quibbles, plump Lila Stuckley, his common-law wife, became a familiar figure in the British Museum's venerable reading room. Said she: "Oh dear. I find it all very difficult. Laws going back to 1742. George II and all that, and that queer language with all those double efs instead of esses." Alfie, to litigation born, delved up enough dusty...
...Night. Marriage without love and life without meaning are examined with talent, intelligence and despair by Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura), whose text might be taken from W. H. Auden: "The glacier knocks in the cupboard, / The desert sighs in the bed, / The crack in the teacup opens / A lane to the land of the dead...
...British raj in trying to exercise control over the mountain kingdom. Nehru's government poured $56 million in economic aid into Nepal and supplied it with arms; in return, Nepal exports to India rice, timber, and the tough little Gurkha soldiers who make up India's crack regiments...