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...reason is that Thompson has had three changes of management in its flagship New York office in the past four years; the shifts have weakened continuity, which is so important in the ad business, and strained relations with some customers. Also, the attention of top executives has been partly diverted from advertising by financial matters, especially since the agency went public in 1969. Besides insurance, Thompson has moved into truck and car leasing and teaching equipment...
...York City's WABC-TV, flagship station of the ABC-TV network. According to the complaint by the National Organization of Women, the station not only discriminates against women in employment practices but is antifemale in its basic approach, from programming to commercials. WABC'S local news, said NOW, is often given over to such "frivolous items" as women's pancake contests or stories about cheerleaders. Added to the station's own antiwomen programs, NOW charges, are commercials that reinforce "sex stereotypes" by showing women spending their days happily waxing floors or getting their laundry whiter...
Professionalism was the order of the day. The City of Dorchester (otherwise known as the Mickey Mouse Flagship) and the Canoe Cuy, two full size catamaran-type warships, left all the other contenders in the lurch. The Canoe Cuy was the winner, but two first place awards were made, owing to a dispute about class conflict. The City thought they were in a different class than the Canoe Cuy and didn't paddle as hard as they could, since they were easily beating everyone else...
...victory," while the Arizona Republic said that "bombs should continue to fall north of the Red River." The New York Daily News praised the re-escalated bombing as "a forceful reminder" of U.S. determination, but two other papers of the parent Tribune Co. took a softer line. The flagship Chicago Tribune simply noted with satisfaction that "the Communists have taken the very action the President warned against. He has reacted as he said he would." The afternoon paper, Chicago Today, raised mildly skeptical questions about Nixon's tactics...
...released from the dam simply demolished the valley. In the dozen miles closest to the dam, its enormous force stripped the soil down to bedrock in places, lifted buildings, cars and trees and hurled them downstream. A frame church was seen riding the flood's crest like a flagship, before being battered to splinters. In one community the only building left standing was the company store. Several bodies were later found floating in the Guyandot some 20 miles downstream...