Word: singularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three years ago, Williams observed, Watkins Committee issued a report standards and procedures for committees. Although this has received widespread support people interested in the rights of individual, he declared, the committee have ignored it with singular faithfulness...
...growing oil-and-beef city of Artesia, N. Mex., where the temperature sometimes hits 100° in October, citizens have long become used to windowless schools. It helps air conditioning, and the children approve. But last week Artesia* announced an even more singular design. Except for the flagpole, Abo Elementary school will be entirely underground-apparently the first such nuclear-age school in the U.S. Says Architect Frank Standhardt: "I consider my profession derelict on civil defense. We've had ten years of grace and done nothing about...
Love That Lucky. Lasker responded with singular skill to the fierce competition of advertising. When the J. Walter Thompson Agency recommended Woodbury's soap for "The Skin You Love to Touch," Lasker fired back, on Palmolive's behalf, with "That School Girl Complexion." Working in double harness with the eccentric George Washington Hill, president of American Tobacco, Lasker converted Lucky Strikes from a chewing tobacco into the nation's leading cigarette. Cannily observing that women might be persuaded that smoking was not only decent but glamorous, Lasker assaulted the feminine market with a series of glowing testimonials...
Ford, which under Henry II's grandfather spent a lot of time and money trying to foist Ford's singular economic and political views on employees and the general public, has become a leader among U.S. industries in its nonpartisan efforts to stir more interest in politics. Its Civic and Governmental Affairs Office, set up in 1950, was one of the first of a series of political-education programs established by such firms as General Electric, American Can Co., Aerojet-General and Gulf Oil. The company not only urges its workers and executives to run for public office...
...Lindsay and Russel Grouse, was constructed on the principle of the basketball. A variety of vapid college humors were compressed into an airtight container of cynical wit laced up with some penetrating moral strictures. Joshua Logan, who produced and directed this film version of the play, has managed with singular skill to peel off the wit and the penetrating remarks. What is left is rather difficult to describe, but it sure doesn't have much bounce...