Word: ems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wood and her partisans contend, someday soon Bob Richards will appear on the television screen grinning healthfully and advising earnest young Americans to buy "Wheaties, Breakfast of Speed Readers"; and parents will be consoling their disgruntled children with "Don't worry son, you can't speed read 'em...
...dollars, the next three ten dollars) before their violations are reported to the administration, an action which may bring loss of driving privileges. The police, however, give out tickets only on Harvard University property, not on Cambridge streets; and even then, says Tonis, "You should be able to talk'em out of it. They're not out to get you. They don't get brownie points for tags...
Going west? United Airlines last week was hard-sell advertising its Royal Hawaiian Red Carpet First Class, in cluding Mai Tais, a filet mignon teriyaki, fancy desserts ("You don't have to pronounce 'em to enjoy 'em"), wide-screen color movies, and a stewardess in a tropical kimuu to pull on your slippers. Trans World Airlines was promoting its four-entree coach meals (seven entrees first class), plus its wide-screen movies and eight channels of stereo, with a hi-fi for everybody...
...writers' conference, for example, Cohn once bawled out his staff for creating an anachronism in an Arabian Nights fantasy. "It's all through this script, goddammit!" he complained. "You've got 'em all saying 'Yes, siree.' " The producer read the offending page on Cohn's desk. "But, Harry," he explained, "that's 'Yes, sire...
...regularly: "We have some women who've been on the pills for eight years straight, and we can't get 'em off them-not even to take part in our study of a once-a-month injection...