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...Tag-Alongs...
SITTING contentedly on the banks of the Illinois River in the very heartland of America, Peoria has for years been the butt of jokes, the gagman's tag for Nowheresville. "How come you got married?" "Well, I was booked into Peoria and it was raining." Today that humor is as stale as the idea of Peoria as a backwater of national life. The Peoria of 1966 welcomes more foreign visitors than just about any other U.S. city of its size (pop. 133,000), and sends its citizens abroad to range the world. The bartender at the Pere Marquette Hotel...
...hefty appropriation for the federal school-lunch program. But the chief attention getters are the proliferating newspaper advertisements on such issues as nuclear disarmament, civil rights and Viet Nam. The ads, bearing massed names in eye-straining type, are sponsored by organizations that seem almost ritualistically to include the tag ad hoc in their titles, such as the Ad Hoc Committee of Veterans for Peace in Viet Nam. Many of them are prepared by advertising-agency volunteers, notably those from Doyle Dane Bernbach, who helped develop the disarmament ads sponsored by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE...
...giant 750,000-kw. atomic power plant to be built on Hog Island in the James River near Norfolk. Last week the utility company doubled its bet, told Westinghouse Electric to put up two 800,000-kw. atomic-fueled reactors and generators on the same site. The price tag: $200 million...
...huddled between November 1960 and mid-1962 to "fix, stabilize and maintain" artificially high prices for inexpensive vitreous-china fixtures, involving some $30 million in sales a year; another group had agreed, beginning in 1962, to drop low-priced (and low-profit) lines of equipment while hiking the tag on the more expensive models, involving about $1 billion in sales all told; company executives had reached their agreements and planned staggered publication of new price lists "in order to avoid suspicion" during conventions and "under the guise of so-called 'official' Plumbing Fixtures Manufacturing Association meetings...