Word: gumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gimmicks. There is an almost machinelike singlemindedness about him. His most vehement cuss words are "darn" and "dad-gum." A jut-jawed six-footer, he never smokes, drinks little, swims and plays tennis to remain at a flat-bellied 180 Ibs.-only 10 Ibs. over his cadet weight. Says Major General Richard Stilwell, commander of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in Thailand: "He has no gimmicks, no hand grenades or pearl-handled pistols. He's just a very straightforward, determined man." Few who know him doubt that he will some day be Army Chief of Staff...
...Pendergrass collected 8,000 books. In Michigan, with Republican Governor George Romney's blessing, a newspaper reporter organized a drive that amassed 7,000 cans of soft drinks, 6,500 cans of foot powder, 5,000 bottles of aspirin, 45,000 tubes of toothpaste, 4,500 packages of gum, and thousands more handy items from applesauce to shaving cream...
...Clear Day she plays a dual role as Daisy Gamble, a low-brow chick who gains highborn chic when she is hypnotized. With a nod of her head, she goes from side-of-da-mouth to elegant eighteenth century English, from bubble-gum popping to a low purr when crystal wouldn't melt in her mouth. The new voice seems less to be coming from her than through her-a ventriloquistic trick-but it provokes a growl of lusty approval from the audience. And that in itself is justification aplenty for Alan Jay Lerner to have paid Barbara...
...Timken Roller-Bearing has built the largest foreign-owned plant (1,000 employees) at Colmar; Remington Rand employs 311 persons to produce electric shavers at Huttenheim; Minoc, a subsidiary of Rohm & Haas, makes ion exchangers at Lauterbourg. Wrigley will enter Alsace next year, turn out three brands of chewing gum at a new $4 million plant near Colmar. Near the Swiss border, Swiss-owned companies have put up plants to make drugs, soups, elevators and caffeine-less coffee...
...started a 30-day sentence for intruding on private property during a civil rights demonstration in Syracuse in March.) As he walked out of the courthouse after his arraignment, he declared: "Destruction of a draft card poses no greater threat to national security than the destruction of a bubble-gum card...