Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston's WBZ, after Pittsburgh's KDKA, is the second oldest licensed station in America. Though its officials prefer the adult image of "contemporary popular music," WBZ's sound is largely rock 'n' roll. But with the cats and the caterwauling goes an aggressive news operation that recently won two United Press International awards, one for editorials criticizing the Massachusetts birth-control laws, the second for coverage of the power blackout in New England. For the privilege of broadcasting a one-minute commercial on Boston's most successful station in prime time, advertisers...
...last week, began the public maneuvers in an attempt to acquire a controlling interest in South Bend's long-troubled auto and appliance company. Being used was a method that company collectors have come to prefer to the old-fashioned proxy fight. Called the tender offer, the technique involves a public bid by an individual, group or company to buy a specified number of shares of another company's stock at a specified price, which is set high enough to woo sellers. It is quicker, harder to block, and often much cheaper than trying to oust the management...
...state with only one ground for divorce: adultery as proved by third-party testimony. As a result, divorces that are contested by one of the parties roil in perjury and mudslinging. In uncontested cases, New Yorkers can get divorced by hiring a professional "other woman," but many childless couples prefer to seek annulments based on phony claims of refusal to bear children; New York has more annulments than any other state. Whatever their other disagreements, affluent couples usually agree to flee to divorce in easier states. A strong drive is being conducted in the New York legislature to reform...
...Price of Fat Dogs. Deutschmarks never change hands in the ransom deals. Ulbricht & Co. prefer to tap the cornucopia of West German industry for trucks and spare parts, and coffee, butter and citrus fruit, which East Germany considers "luxury" consumer goods. With time, a pricing system has evolved. Young prisoners such as Zippel and Trochim can be sprung for 15,000 Deutschmarks ($3,750), while the dicke Hünde (fat dogs) convicted of subversion and espionage pull down as much as $10,000 apiece...
Died. June Walker, 65, who flapped her way to fame in 1926 as the first Lorelei Lee of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, demonstrated her versatility by playing everything from a brassy prostitute in Waterloo Bridge to a doting mother in Blue Denim; of emphysema; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...