Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that used to take professional pride in staying out of the public glare, the effect of all this controversy has been basic: instead of concentrating on wooing only doctors, as before, drugmakers are now going out of their way to win over the public. Several companies recently joined to launch a national advertising campaign to revive the drugmakers' image, and the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association is serving up a strong prescription of publicity, in the hope that it will cure the uneasy feeling that affects the industry...
...first four days off Newport, R.I., last week, those two hopeful veterans, Columbia and Nefertiti, each absorbed three more scrubbings from American Eagle and Constellation, the new girls in town. Officials of the New York Yacht Club Selection Committee decided to waste no more time. Hopping into a launch after the third defeat, they motored out to extend their thanks and regrets to Columbia's Skipper Walter Podolak and Nefertiti 's Ted Hood. That cleared the decks for the long-awaited head-to-head duel between Eagle and Constellation...
...seems almost certain they will have to-chances are good that U.A.W. locals with their own grievances (26,700 in all) may start wildcat strikes that could shut down one or more automakers. Any strikes would, however, probably be short-lived. The auto companies are anxious to launch their 1965 models, Walter Reuther is itching to get on the hustings against Barry Goldwater, and the U.A.W. (together with some auto-industry bosses) would like to avoid embarrassing Lyndon Johnson, who kicks off his campaign with a Sept. 7 Labor Day speech in Detroit...
...preliminaries were almost over. At Hershey, Pa., the Republican Party, after months of internecine strife, went a long way toward binding up its wounds. The Democrats are about to launch their campaign with next week's national convention in Atlantic City. The machinery of the great quadrennial U.S. exercise in politics was oiled up and ready to move toward Election Day, Nov. 3 (see following stories...
...warned that "the debt of blood incurred by the U.S. to the Vietnamese people must be repaid." Despite this bombast, the Red Chinese made no specific commitment of support to their southern neighbors, and U.S. experts could find no scrutable clues as to whether they might launch a new Korea...