Word: seltzer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that our students must be heard. We as teachers also have a demand: it is that we work together in a rational atmosphere and compassionate spirit. Juan Marichal Samuel Popkin Benjamin I. Schwartz Laurence Wylie Martin Peretz Robert A. Rothstein William Paul Ezra F. Vogel Barrington Moore Jr. Daniel Seltzer Raymond Siever Stephen Jay Gould John Womack Jr. Roy M. Hofheinz James S. Ackerman Lance C. Buhl I. Bernard Cohen Leon Kirchner Neil Harris James R. Kurth Harry Levin Doris Kearns John M. Cooper Stanley Hoffman Daniel Field Robert Jervis John Rawis Max Krook John Raduer George Wald...
...spectacle probably should be called "Son of Roller Derby." Seltzer, 36, is the son of Leo ("Bromo") Seltzer, the man who dreamed up the Roller Derby and turned it into a national craze in the late 1940s. In those days, TV programming became so saturated with helmeted skaters that the sport suffered a severe case of overexposure and soon faded to a few games a year, mostly in California...
...Jerry Seltzer, the president of Bay Promotions, Inc., in Oakland, Calif., is still fuming. When the TV show What's My Line? telephoned from New York to ask for one of his girl skaters to appear on the program, Seltzer says, the caller explained that the show was looking for someone with a "weird and unusual occupation-one that is nearly extinct." Obviously, says Seltzer, those isolated New Yorkers did not realize that he was promoting the Big Comeback of that riot on roller skates called the Roller Derby...
...city's insularity does not really worry Promoter Seltzer all that much. The rest of the country knows all too well what he is doing. Take Atlanta, for example. Last week 3,600 Roller Derby fans jampacked Municipal Auditorium to watch the touring San Francisco Bay Bombers battle the New England Braves. The fundamentals of the game were easy enough to grasp: with men and women alternating, two teams of five skaters each circle a banked oval track in a tight cluster. Then one or two skaters from each team break from the pack and attempt to score points...
...trumpet Pristeen, a new product of the Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., whose sales of Listerine, Roiaids, Bromo-Seltzer and some 1,500 other items added up to more than $700 million last year. Pristeen is, the ads say, "a vaginal spray deodorant" that ought to "be essential to your peace of mind about being a girl." Warner-Lambert executives claim that the multimillion-dollar Pristeen print media campaign is bigger than that for any other new toiletry product in 1969. Pris-teen's chief competitor is FDS (for Feminine Deodorant Spray), a similar product manufactured by suburban Chicago...