Word: razors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gillette's current TV commercials, a man's hand appears, sets down a dispenser of Gillette razor blades and-of all things-three clearly labeled dispensers of rival Wilkinson, Schick and Personna blades. The hand naturally picks up the package of Gillette after brushing the others aside, but the very appearance of rivals is a departure from tradition. Such direct identification of competition has long been a rarity, and advertisers have gone to almost any length to avoid it. Now a steadily growing number are coming right out and naming names, thus bringing on bad times for Brand...
That evened the score with Vesper, but it didn't settle anything. Taking up an offer from the Gillette Safety Razor Co.'s German branch, Vesper agreed to enter the Ratzeburg Regatta and race once again against the powerful West German crew. Last week, on a windless lake close to the little (pop. 12,123) town of Ratzeburg near the Danish frontier, Karl Adam's husky boys got off with a fast-chopping 50 strokes a minute, built up a one-half-length lead before slowing the pace to 41 strokes. At times, the Vespers pumped away...
...planes are dropping Lazy Dogs, which explode in the air and spray the ground with small, razor-sharp projectiles; Cluster Bombs, loaded with hundreds of small bombs, explode after they have penetrated the jungle canopy, and Shrike and Bullpup air-to-ground guided missiles zero in on preselected targets. Ingeniously designed for low-flying missions is the Snakeye, a bomb that upon release opens an assembly of metal ribs like an umbrella's skeleton. The sudden increase of air resistance retards the falling bomb and thus permits the jet that drops it to escape the blast of detonation...
Southpaw starter Larry Melfa and reliefer Paul Thornton combined to give the Crimson its first shutout of the 1965 season. Melfa, who has taken his lumps in prior appearances on the mound, was razor-sharp yesterday. In seven innings he yielded seven hits, struck out eight batters, and walked none. Thornton entered the game in the eighth inning and put on the finishing touches...
Glistening with Blood. Every window in the embassy burst inward. Jagged glass bits blasted like a blizzard of razor blades through every office. The ground floor was turned into a knee-deep mass of rubble. Parked cars spun into the air and landed in twisted heaps. A crowded Chinese restaurant across the street collapsed in smoke and flames, its floor strewn with still bodies and flopping forms of the wounded. Dozens of pedestrians in a nearby shopping district were flattened by the blast. Where the car had been, there was only a smoking pit, two feet deep. Three charred bodies...