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...while his erstwhile rivals were telling the 70,000 people in the Los Angeles Coliseum what a great guy he was, Jack Kennedy fidgeted in his chair, nervously fingered his lips and ears, chatted with his neighbor, or worked at scraping a wad of gum off his right shoe. When the time came to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, he graciously saluted the vanquished one by one-Running Mate Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, Hubert Humphrey, also scrappy Paul Butler, retiring chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and the absent Harry Truman. Then Jack Kennedy plunged into his speech...
...called chlorophyll in toothpaste, chewing gum, etc., alleged to deodorize the breath, is a chemically altered natural extract, usually copper chlorophyllin...
...relaxed, ribald but in deadly earnest about his work. He is so sure of what he wants that he wastes an amazingly small amount of film footage. Says Billy: "All that's left on the cutting-room floor when I'm through are cigarette butts, chewing-gum wrappers and tears. A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard...
...always think about our place in history. The great question is, will we do anything unique and beautiful enough so that people living in a future time will not be justified in saying of us: 'There lived a people who produced lots of Coke bottles and chewing gum, but what did they leave the world...
...research achievement that has nothing to do with the safety or effectiveness of false teeth, but may save their wearers embarrassment, was joyously reported to William Wrigley Jr. Co. stockholders: a new plastic to which chewing gum will not stick is almost ready for the denture trade...