Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Getch still hasn't decided who will play where. "If I name one man for a starting spot I would have to name three. That's how deep our strength is," he added...
Since the proposal before the Council is not spot zoning, critics of the compromise have warned that it would affect other sites in the City besides the Baird Atomic land. They have also pointed out that it would not assure that the development would be designed so as to harmonize with the Kennedy Library...
...with thousands of milling people, the police could sort out the four groups and could then apply the appropriate kinds of restraint? You must be dreaming. You say that no one "could have known which windows [thrown objects] came from." No trick at all when you ask hotelmen to spot for you, as the police did. You are also casual about thrown objects that start from the fifteenth floor; they strike hard, and it is homicidal to throw them...
Hubert Humphrey's campaign staffers recently witnessed an advertising presentation that shocked them. As proposed for a minute-long TV spot, it featured Humphrey's countenance superimposed on a dart board. While an off-screen voice solemnly ticked off Hubert's achievements ("first to come out for open housing . . . first for disarmament . . . first for aid to education"), darts went winging in on the vice-presidential face to drive each point home...
...joint British-Dutch companies, Royal Dutch/Shell ($8.4 billion in sales) and Unilever ($5.6 billion). British Petroleum ($3 billion) stayed in third place. Hit by a slump in domestic sales, Volkswagenwerk of Germany went from fourth to seventh place, giving up the No. 4 spot to Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries (sales: $2.69 billion v. Volkswagenwerk...