Word: ev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whir of a Bull-GE TAS-84 computer has replaced the clang of pushcarts and the monotony of canned music, is a going concern. His profit margin is 15%, his stock turns over every two weeks, and, says he, "the 2% other supermarkets have to deduct in theft losses ev ery month pays my rental fee for the computer...
...latest avid Avis ad reader? None other than Russia's traveling poet and public relations man, Evgeny Ev-tushenlco, 33, who says he's going to use the auto-rental slogan as the title for a short novel on the U.S. inspired by his recent six-week tour. "I am calling it We Try Harder, because Americans work so hard," confided Evgeny, draining his fourth daiquiri in a bar in Beirut. What's more, he continued, he hoped the book would bring him some crisp U.S. greenbacks because he was flat broke, "like a little baby...
...East-West understanding, despite the fact that many were resentful because Russia supplies 70% of Hanoi's imported war materiel. His persuasiveness eventually won over a majority of the Senate's Republicans (who were 22 to 13 in favor of the treaty). Even Ev Dirksen finally confessed: "I'm not impervious to misconceptions." When the time came to vote, Dirksen left a hospital bed, where he was confined by fatigue, to cast his "aye" and hail the treaty as beneficial "to the people of the entire world...
...Ev does not join, the union insists, he can forget about the third and fourth records he has tentatively planned and reserve his long-play rhetoric for Meet the Press. For Dirksen, who has indefatigably reiterated his conviction that no one should be forced to join a union, and twice last year led successful filibusters to preserve state right-to-work laws, AFTRA's demands pose a delicate dilemma indeed...
...only visible effect of Ev's new-found role as a pop recording star is that his hair, which was duplicated, ringlet by unruly ringlet, in a recent sculpture by Rube Goldberg, now cascades over his ears and down his neck with Joanie Phoanie abandon, and the great wave atop his head looks as if it had been locked in place with Living Curl. In a certain light, there even seems to be a new tint of gold among the silver threads-though only his hairdresser knows for sure...