Word: stalwartness
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...sseldorf agency with the unusual name of Team. The agency made its mark when a distiller gambled $60,000 to try to move several thousand cases of unsold vodka out of his warehouse. Team came up with a series of ads showing a stalwart adventurer and a bear paddling through Finnish lakes or going on African safari. The punch line: "Puschkin Vodka for tough guys." For the next three years, the distillery could not make enough vodka to meet the demand. So successful was Team's small German campaign for French-made Vittel Mineral Water ("The water that rejuvenates...
...goes, through John Resor, son of Army Secretary Stanley Resor; Lindsay McKelvie, stepdaughter of CIA Boss Richard Helms; and Lincoln Chafee, son of Navy Secretary John Chafee. Avant-Garde suggests that "all ten of their fathers resign immediately and nominate their children as their successors." Another Republican stalwart with a dissenter in the family is Ronald Reagan, whose singer daughter Maureen returned from a 35-day USO tour of Viet Nam convinced that we should no longer have a military victory...
...Senate by the same margin. The fight is putting Republicans on the spot, too, because it is difficult to justify the reduction of $1.1 billion in health and education funds as vital to checking inflation in a nearly $200 billion budget. Republican Senator George Aiken, usually an Administration stalwart, speaks for many of his colleagues when he grumbles: "The President could have found a better bill to veto...
...Southwick and a stalwart defense which dominated the rest of the game. Led by Middle Guard Pete "Monster" Lennon, Chuck "Ring Ding" Hagen, and Johnny "Long Shot" Powers, the defense nailed legendary Yale quarterback David "B.D." Nix for seven consecutive losses. Southwick, an unheralded junior second-stringer. came off the bench with three minutes to go and hurled three long bombs to Barrett to save a thrilling game and a thrilling season. The game ball was awarded to player-coach Ron Janis, the key linebacker, who played in his last game as a Crimed...
Penn controlled the game throughout the first quarter. Harvard's halfback line sagged deep into the Crimson penalty area, and the Quakers easily kept the ball in their offensive half of the field. But goalie Meyers and a stalwart defense maintained a scoreless...