Word: sponsors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frills. After Douglas' defeat last fall, Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire became the bill's chief sponsor. More flexible than his old friend and mentor, Proxmire facilitated passage by agreeing to exempt smaller transactions under the revolving-charge-account systems used by many department stores. The stores will still be able to state their "service charge" on unpaid balances as 1½% a month-instead of the pause-giving figure of 18% a year. Transactions in which the annual credit cost is less than $10 would be excluded, along with loans exceeding $25,000, and all first mortgages...
...Peace Fair" will be held on the Cambridge Common this Sunday from 1-5 p.m. The fair's sponsor, the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee, plans to have three live bands, stage shows, an art exhibition, book sales and anti-Vietnam war literature distributions...
...dropouts and near-drop-outs that the women have dealt with, 2,000 have been persuaded to stay in or return to school. There they get the additional benefit of Crusade-sponsored lectures on juvenile law and crime by half a dozen police officers who tour the schools. The Crusaders also work with youths paroled from detention homes and sponsor seminars on shoplifting for merchants...
...Vegas Show was overbilled (TIME, May 12), and sponsor backing was overestimated. Last week, with another $450,000 due to cover its A.T. & T. cable costs for June, United, as one broadcaster put it, "simply couldn't pay its phone bill." So, 23 nights after it started, Ollie Treyz's "fourth network" went...
...manuscript but on tape. Its quotes and footnotes contained excerpts from Fred Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Bob Hope shows. Carson's analysis of timing and his appreciation of other crucial matters was somewhat naive ("A good comedian can get you to buy his sponsor's products"), but "not bad," he insists, "for 18 years...