Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father, a small-town South Dakota pharmacist who was bankrupted by the Depression. Young Hubert's education in political science at the University of Minnesota was interrupted by financial troubles for six years. Before he finally received his degree magna cum laude, he had worked as a druggist, soda jerk, janitor and hog inoculator. After marrying a home-town girl, Muriel Buck, and fathering the first of their four children, Humphrey went to graduate school and wrote his master's thesis on the New Deal. Settling in Minneapolis, where his first teaching...
Harris, 61, got into the business by chance. Curious in 1950 about the valu able samples a friend received through the mail, Harris wrote to 100 companies for free samples. He got back 82, including a twelve-can carton of tooth powder and a soda-fountain dispenser of headache powder. Harris conceived a toiletries pack, sold the idea to hotels as a convenience for guests. He eventually signed up 4,000 hotels, sold more to banks looking for new-account come-ons, others to airlines (which give the packs to grounded passengers). The Guest Pac Corp. also sells packs...
...Communists believe we will soon give up; that Vietnam will become a political issue, like Korea, and that our next President will promise to bring the boys home. The Chinese tell Hanoi that our soldiers want only to return to their soda fountains and that they will soon fade in the intense jungle heat. Also, the anti-war demonstrations remind them of the French sentiment in 1954 which gave them half the country...
...Wylie, 21, asleep in the nude, he sexually attacked her. When Roommate Emily Hoffert, 23, walked in, Robles said, he grabbed her, bound the two women together and tied them to a bed. Robles was quoted as saying: "Something told me I had to kill them. I got two soda bottles and struck them over the head. I knocked out Janice and I only stunned Emily. I just kept stabbing them." Afterward, testified the Delaneys, Robles showed up at their apartment wearing bloodstained clothes and explained: "I need a shot. I just iced two girls...
...Haul Comité pour la Défense et l'Expansion de la Langue Française, formed to ferret out all the linguistic "degradation and corruption" of franglais in the land where tons les types enjoy le shopping at le drugstore, having a whisky-soda or gin and tonic served by le barman while they watch the playboys with sex appeal in smokings (tuxes) stroll by on their way to le dancing or le striptease. Ah, M. Pompidou. Hélas, quel...