Word: sponsored
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There is not a sponsor in all U.S. television who would countenance that sort of gritty billingsgate, but in Britain Alf is not only on the air but is also the most popular character on television. Or rather the most talked-about, for he either outrages viewers or spills them laughing on the floor. "The amusing thing about Alf," says BBC Director-General Sir Hugh Greene (brother of Novelist Graham Greene), "is the intense fury aroused among those who share his prejudices. The program offends a great many people-but those one is glad to offend...
Students for a Democratic Society at Harvard and M.I.T. will sponsor a series of lectures over the next two months on contemporary Marxism. Speakers in the series will range from a Divinity School professor to a Roxbury community organizer...
...communications," and "the YR's effort probably exposed us to awareness of some relevant questions." Since the election meeting, SDS has shown increased willingness to meet YR's to discuss any issue. Unfortunately, the YR executive committee has not reciprocated. Last Tuesday evening, I suggested that we co-sponsor a Vietnam discussion; my motion was defeated...
...legion of physicists, engineers, pilots and otherwise normal adults who begin folding up at the very sight of a plain piece of paper. What coaxed their secret hobby out into the open was the Scientific American's tongue-in-cheek announcement three months ago that it would sponsor the First International Paper-Airplane Competition. The paper-plane buffs took the offer seriously, so much so that the magazine found itself inundated with 10,941 entries from 49 states and 26 foreign countries...
...games this season, 113-112 -and there is no reason to suspect that they can't do it again in next month's postseason playoffs. True, Russell makes mistakes: in one game, he was fined for forgetting to call a required time out (thereby costing the TV sponsor a commercial); in another, he sent in a substitute without removing the player he was supposed to substitute for -giving Boston six men on court instead of the regulation five. But to a man the Celtics agree that Bill is a more than capable coach. "He's doing...