Word: soothes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agency head is George Brice, who looks like a druggist and talks fluent corporatese. Brice's reputation is based on the Relief headache-remedy ad, showing a diagram of a headache inside a head being attacked by little cowboys on horses. The cowboys are Relief's ingredient Sooth-X, and they got into the ad by decisively defeating little airplanes, tigers, rocket ships and genies in consumer testing reports. Brice's goal is to replace Gibbs & Wilson's list of luxury clients with packaged-goods industry giants. "Why, a friend of mine at Procter & Gamble told...
Richard Daley declares martial law in Miami and tries to arrest the entire Democratic convention when, after 134 ballots, it nominates Jerry Rubin for President. Vice Presidential nominee Larry DiCara attempts to sooth Daley, citing the need for "ethnic balance". Declaring that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice," Rubin says he will campaign on a radical platform of "ecological concern, cursing home reform and automobile safety...