Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected to hurt cigarette sales, but only to force the companies to shift their ads for some 100 brands to newspapers and magazines. The Daily Mirror's columnist Cassandra reassured smokers: "You'll still have the precious right to smoke yourself to death with a wonderful selection of brands at your suicidal disposal." But the restriction may not end with TV, if Labor has its way. Said Health Minister Kenneth Robinson: "The question of cigarette advertising in other media is still under consideration...
...Urge. What the reforms seek to do is liberate the Soviet economy from the stifling economic dictatorship that Stalin imposed on it as a mirror image of his political tyranny. Determined to rush the transition to industrial power that had taken the U.S. and Britain 200 years to accomplish, he turned Russia into a gigantic state corporation that ruthlessly seized every bit of excess capital it produced in order to feed it back into its heavy industries-above all, steel-which are the sinews of a modern economy. With such a single-minded goal, planning was relatively easy...
Sipping Blood. The prospect can hardly be pleasing to Fleet Street; painful experience has long since taught British papers the wisdom of living within the rules. After the 1949 arrest of John George Haigh, who was accused of killing women and sipping goblets of their blood, the Daily Mirror chose to publish all the available gory details. The paper took care to disassociate its accounts of the VAMPIRE HORROR IN LONDON from the Haigh story, but no one was really deceived. Haigh was convicted and executed, but as a result of his suit against the Mirror, the newspaper was fined...
Recently a photographer asked Duchamp to sign his autograph book. He explained to the artist that, since those he photographs are his hosts, it was a sort of a guest book in reverse. Duchamp whipped out a pen and, writing backwards, jotted down his signature in a perfect mirror image. For what it is worth, this was also Leonardo da Vinci's favorite device, in his notebooks, for keeping his secrets to himself...
...over-the-counter represent companies that are not sufficiently large, seasoned or profitable to be listed on the major exchanges. But the OTC index of 35 stocks includes such mighty companies as Anheuser-Busch, Ethyl Corp., Rockwell Manufacturing, Grolier, Eli Lilly and Dun & Bradstreet. They are a remarkably reliable mirror of the entire OTC market: the most recent study showed that the average price of 538 nationally listed OTC stocks gained at a pace that was virtually identical to the OTC index's gain...