Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clever pictorial TV log for those who cannot read time; it includes society, travel and sports columns. The tabloid was started by Dane Edwards, 34, owner of a small professional speakers' bureau, to help some neighborhood children. It now operates with a staff of eight (unpaid except for soda pop and snack expenses), a waiting list of 23 and a mandatory retirement age of 16. Edwards and his wife Janie keep their editing and layout help to a minimum. The strength of the paper is derived from Article Four of the Hoot Owl rules: "When writing...
...candle is grape: a wax grape soda with straw, to be precise, but a candle nonetheless. It was a gift from my sister. My sister is only seventeen and therefore not a Harvard graduate, but nonetheless insane...
...with frequent conferences and briefings, notes Cate, who in the past year has been granted three private interviews. For this week's story, Cate accompanied Brandt to Poland to witness the signing of the Treaty of Warsaw between West Germany and its ancient enemy. Then, over Campari and soda in Brandt's home, Cate and the Chancellor had the lengthy talks that helped the editors to assess Brandt and his initiative toward the East...
...cream, or to play musical pieslast one to stop at a cutout target gets a faceful. Everyone in the 120-child audience receives at least half a dozen giftsand a chance to wave at the folks back home. During the six-hour taping, the kids are given soda and ice cream (sandwiches were once dispensed, but too many kids threw up from excitement). Brand names are reeled off at a rate that seems like two per minuteplus commercials. The show is so successful that Wonderama gets 4,000 requests for admission each month. Presumably, a parent registers...
...guests stood under a striped canopy on the lawn, finished their roast beef sandwiches, their soda and beer, their cake and apples, finished with all the other speakers. Al Capp, Li'l Abner's creator and one of the big attractions of the celebraton, had titillated them with a long chuckling monologue-"I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just a stone's throw from Harvard.... As for John Kenneth Galbraith, well [chuckle], he's by far the best American economist since Edna St. Vincent Mllay.... I think the bedwetting, lunatic left knows that it's lost.... We're in for something...