Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George, 24, the newest Beatle husband (he married London Model Patti Boyd early last year), lives near by in a big white bungalow. He and his friends are daubing the outside walls with colorful cartoons, flowers and abstract designs, some in fluorescent paint that shines in the daylight. Unlike Ringo, he practices a great deal, and his music room is strewn with 12 guitars...
...Clean & Paint." By far the major undertaking of Tamm's men, however, is the work they do analyzing individual police forces in excruciating detail. One recent 498-page study of New York's finest called for a complete overhaul of the organizational machinery; then it described just how the new one should be set up, from the elimination of the slot for the department's No. 2 man right down to a cutback of the city's much admired but outmoded mounted patrolmen. In another study, Boston's force was told to raise salaries, lower...
Airline Thefts. At least one of Wells, Rich, Greene's ideas has already boomeranged. In her dealings with Braniff, Mary Wells persuaded the airline to paint its jets in pastel hues and garb its stewardesses in Pucci-designed uniforms. But a Wells ad showing an elderly woman passenger stealing everything from a Braniff blanket to the plane itself has had the unintended effect of dramatically increasing the line's theft rate. No matter how the American Motors campaign goes over, however, there are hopes that some of the company's cars will sell well. Based on optimism...
...sure, she added, "it also looks a bit like the southeastern coast of the United States-you know, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia." What technique had she employed to achieve such double-barreled results? "Well," she said modestly, "I started in the upper left-hand corner and just painted down and across." Why? "Because that way the paint doesn't smudge...
...beginning of August, higher prices have been posted in film, trucks, lumber, aluminum sheet, color TV sets, rubber tires and many electrical appliances. Hardly a day goes by without new rises in one chemical or another. Last week it was liquid chlorine (used in bleaches, paper, textiles) and glycerine (paint, explosives), which got an average 3% price boost by Dow Chemical...