Word: norelco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, just 16 hours after he retired as chief of the Los Angeles police department, Tom Reddin ran a Norelco over his afternoon stubble, popped in his contact lenses, tucked a microphone into the front of his gold shirt and took over as evening news anchorman of station KTLA...
Soapy Come-On. They buy much of their cheap merchandise from Japan, and imply that it is a name brand by advertising the items as, say, Norelco-type shavers or Remington electric can openers. When they actually offer something like an RCA TV set, they never have enough in stock, merely take a customer's deposit and bury him in an avalanche of form letters until he tires of trying to retrieve his payment. Some have offered a come-on of ten boxes of Tide detergent for $1.97; what often arrives is an unknown soap brand and an additional...
...virtues of the nickel-cadmiums. Skil Corp. and Black & Decker sell cordless electric hand drills, hedge trimmers, grass clippers and other tools that are powered by a small nickel-cadmium power pack built into the tool or strapped to the user's belt. Remington, Schick and Norelco have battery-run shavers. Sunbeam has a cordless shaver and kitchen mixer, General Electric a toothbrush, Fairchild a home movie camera. Nickel-cadmiums also power a growing variety of other products, such as flashlights, cigarette lighters, radios, television sets and walkie-talkies...