Word: polk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago Discounter Sol Polk puts it more bluntly: "We've got to have more things that someone can have first on his block." He wants to turn the home inside out with new products. "I'm angry with kitchens," says he. "Once you fix them, you can't change them." Polk would like kitchen equipment to be as movable as living-room furniture, wants pool-sized bathtubs for the whole family, electronic-memory bathroom scales, home steam rooms, and laundry equipment that will wash, dry and fold a towel in seconds...
...other category are firms that diligently compile lists to rent. The largest by far is Detroit's R. L. Polk & Co., which can supply up to 120 million names broken down into hundreds of categories. Polk works mostly from names it collects from state automobile registration certificates, can supply addresses of all Ford owners in Texas, including those who have bought a car within 40 days. Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. also works with auto registrations, in addition has a list of 55 million addresses without names, making possible broadside mailings to just about every "Occupant" in well-populated areas...
...once, word of the blockade was flashed to U.S. headquarters in Berlin. U.S. Commander Major General James H. Polk, immediately fired off a message advising the Russians that "it is the allies who determine under what circumstances they will order troop passengers to dismount." Snapped Spiridonov: "It is the Soviets and not the allied authorities who determine convoy processing procedures...
Today Ohiri will have some help on the offense and Amherst will need a new strategy. Sophomore Hugh Polk and center forward Cormac O'Malley are good enough to keep the Jeffs from using gang tactics against Ohiri, who has been moved to inside right. In his new position, Ohiri will be harder to box in and less vulnerable to Amherst's magic circle of defensemen...
...much publicized "weakness" in the Harvard halfback wall seemed to be a myth, and the sophomore depth in these positions in encouraging. New varsity players on the line--Fred Akuffo, Azinna Nwafor, Morgan Hudson, and Hugh Polk--acquired needed experience to use this Saturday against Amherst, a perennially tough opponent. With inside John Thorndike off the sick list, the varsity has a good opportunity to avenge last year's defeat by the Lord Jeffs...