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...films were two years in the making and cost an estimated $300,000. Even so, one ad in the series had to be junked. Some Negro viewers, led by Comedian Dick Gregory, complained that the film showing five white Platformate cars outdistancing five black cars was a demeaning insult. Nowadays, Shell is phasing out its endurance-test ads and, like most of its competitors, is running coupon contests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: . . . And Now a Word about Commercials | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...paid a Russian terrorist named Boris Savinkov 200,000 rubles (then worth some $10,000) to kill Lenin. Masaryk's memory is enjoying a fresh outpouring of honor and homage in the wave of current reform, and Czechoslovakia's press reacted angrily to the Soviet charge. "An insult without parallel," said the newspaper Práce. Lidová Demokracie called the story "a gross falsification of our history" and "slander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: An Eminence from Moscow | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

Jean or Jack, can insult our people and call them cowardly." If the talks reach a second stage, Ky is scheduled to head the South's delegation?which can hardly be a comforting thought to the U.S. For the time being, Saigon will send as many as 20 "observers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE VERY FIRST STEP | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...press conference in Holmes Hall at the Law School before his speech, Lindsay said he hoped New York's Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller would be drafted as the Republican Presidential nominee. Asked if he himself would refuse to serve if elected, Lindsay said, "no man wishes to insult the office by making silly statements about...

Author: By Sandra E. Ravich, | Title: Lindsay Denounces Force in Cities, Calls for Ways to 'Relieve Tensions' | 4/22/1968 | See Source »

...deceased concentration-camp guards; a school play casts ten-year-olds in a staging of Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom; a teacher encourages the academic achievement of her boy students by rewarding them in an entirely extracurricular manner; a nun appearing on a Joe Pyne-style TV insult program is publicly reduced to a fluttering wreck when the M.C. savagely probes into her sex life; an aged international entertainment biggie, known only as Star Maker, stays alive on the transplanted organs of his employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minorities Are Funny | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

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