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...Mike McHugh, the fourth leading tackler on the team last year, give Harvard two excellent defensive ends. The tackle spot will sorely miss All-Ivy Mark Steiner, but two-year veteran Ed Vena, plus Mike O'Hare and Bill Kettlewell, both of whom saw some playing time, should adequately plug the holes...
...Schick asserted that its Lite Touch shaver for women would not cut or nick. Its proof was an interoffice memo describing results of informal tests conducted by a panel of female employees. The tests were made after the FTC asked Schick to back up its plug...
Keneally has written six notable novels, usually dealing either with the small domestic crises of the soul or with spin-offs from historic incidents. It is a measure of his craft that he does not try to plug these themes into today's headlines for a cheap jolt of relevance. Jimmie's tale is played out against a background of incidental chatter and speculation about Australian federation, which in 1900 united the continent's six major colonies into a commonwealth. In the end the reader sees that this is not the background, but the whole point...
...they hold more than Union Carbide's Glad bags and Colgate-Palmolive's Baggies. Bisodol commercials trumpet its stomach-soothing effectiveness over Turns and Rolaids. A Beech-Nut gum ad stresses that each pack contains eight sticks and displays a Wrigley pack, which has only seven. A plug for a Volkswagen Type III sedan insists that it has just as much in its compact as Maverick, Toyota or Datsun. The idea is infectious. Lincoln Continental commercials refer only to "that other American luxury car," but the ad agency, Kenyon & Eckhardt, is studying the possibility of naming Cadillac. Says...
...fuller disclosure, including a series of vignettes under the heading CASE HISTORIES IN THE LIFE OF ONE COOL COP. No other names were mentioned aside from Leuci's, but Seymour claims that insiders could easily identify informants from the story. "That," said Seymour later, "really pulled the plug. Guys disappeared in all directions. You couldn't find anybody. It was a year's work flushed down the drain...