Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People leave advertising agencies all the time and for all sorts of reasons, ranging from a knife in the back to a boot out the door. Last week one of the ad world's top executives resigned his $150,000-a-year post for what, as he stated it, was a rather different motive. Said Emerson Foote, 57, chairman of McCann-Erickson: "I will not have anything to do with any advertising agency which promotes the sale of cigarettes...
...perfect man killer with her cold, carnivorous smile, her facial tic and gnawed nails; she strips Herzog of his bank account during the day, ridicules him into impotence at night; after meals she is in the habit of applying her lipstick while gazing at her reflection in a knife blade. Her lover, Valentine Gersbach, is an ex-disk jockey who loves to "yuk it up" with intellectuals, gives Herzog fatherly lectures on how to get along with his wife...
...Turkish enemies he is Satan incarnate; the British press dubbed him Mack the Knife. Western diplomats find him wily and willful, sly and stubborn-the man most likely to fumble the world into war. But in the eyes of the Greeks of Cyprus, His Beatitude Makarios III, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and all Cyprus, is almost a living saint who can do no wrong. Though he is architect and President of the island republic, Makarios is also head of Cyprus' Orthodox Church, and he spends almost as much energy serving God as bedeviling...
...adult passersby reported that Powell definitely had wielded a knife and described the action much as Gilligan had. Another adult witness said he was sure that Powell had "an object" in his right hand. Two Negro friends of Powell testified that on the way to school, Powell had shown them two knives, given one to each to keep for him. After the superintendent fled into the building, said one friend, Powell asked him for a knife and declared: "I'm going to cut that . . ." The friend pretended that he no longer had the knife. The other youth said that...
...department board is still investigating the case to determine whether Gilligan, a 17-year police veteran with 19 citations for meritorious police work, violated any department regulations. It will be under heavy pressure to find against him. Yet it should go without saying that anyone being attacked with a knife has a right to defend himself-and the grand jury displayed no doubt at all about that. Declared George Schuyler, one of two Negroes serving on the 23-man jury: "Our decision was unanimous. I did the right thing, and so did the rest of the jury...