Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your story on teen-age sex [Aug. 21] is so comprehensive that I've shelved a teenage opus I've about half-finished writing. Your researchers and reporters have treated the subject so graphically, what the hell else is there to learn or prove...
...prove that he can turn the same trick with even less promising raw material, Mills recently unveiled as his latest protege one Raymond O'Sullivan, 25, an Irish ex-postal clerk. His new name is-of course-Gilbert O'Sullivan. Mills admits that O'Sullivan has terrible diction, little rapport with women, and has never set foot on a stage. Despite all that, Gilbert O'Sullivan currently has the No. 1 hit single in the U.S. with Alone Again (Naturally). Last week the effusively bittersweet ballad was making the biggest sweep of Top 40 radio stations...
...Corsican tradition, he refused to give his real name or explain what he was doing with the money. His silence caused him to be sent to jail for six months for contempt of court. At the end of his term, the U.S. deported him but, since it could prove no link between the $247,000 and dope trafficking, the government was forced to give him the money back-with interest...
...kidding," said South African Golfer Gary Player. "We've had a baby after every one of my major victories." As if to prove his point, Player last month won the Professional Golfers' Association of America championship-his sixth major win-and phoned Wife Vivienne to ask if she was pregnant. "No," replied Vivienne, an answer that soon proved premature. Now, says Player, his record still holds. The couple's sixth child will be along in April...
...documentation has been skimpy. Sears, Roebuck and Carrier Corp., for example, satisfied the FTC that they could fully prove what their ads said about their air conditioners. Still, Consumer Protection Bureau Chief Robert Pitofsky and his staff concluded, after preliminary analysis of 282 claims from 32 companies, that 30% were inadequately documented, another 30% were supported by data too technical for consumers to understand, and 13 assertions were backed by no evidence at all. The obvious question is why, then, the FTC has not moved against those advertisers who could not convince it that their claims were true. The agency...