Word: ricotta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just dealt with a bill to add, as consumer representatives, two corpses to the state anatomical board: that passes for humor in Lincoln. Rhode Island's senators breezily adopted a resolution praising the hairdo of a female legislator, but the house turned aside a proposal to decree ricotta the State Cheese. In Florida, the legislature recently indulged in boisterous repartee over a measure that would have made it a crime to molest the "skunk ape," a mythical critter occasionally sighted around the state that is said to stand 7 ft. tall, weigh 700 lbs. and smell like swamp...
...Ricotta. At Off the Wall, nightly...
...from $493 million in 1970 to $563 million in 1972. That figure automatically climbed to $627 million with two acquisitions. Last February, Y & R bought out Sudler & Hennessey, the nation's largest ad agency in the medical-magazine field (billings: $34 million). Last week Ney picked up Wunderman, Ricotta & Kline, which has billings of $30 million and is the largest agency in direct-response advertising, the field in which consumers order goods and services directly from the advertiser. The Wunderman deal lifted Y & R into the No. 1 position in domestic billings, roughly $27 million ahead of J. Walter...