Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EXECUTIVES Able, Agressive-and Out When he became the $150,000-a-year chairman and chief executive officer of Cities Service Co. two years ago, John L. Burns admitted that his experience in the petroleum industry amounted to knowing how to "fill the tank of my car." Yet he figured that he could do the job through pure executive ability...
Levin's principals are Gore Taylor, a young American protest singer, and Igor Mikhailovitch, a young Russian protest poet, who meet in Israel as the Six-Day War is about to start. So Gore drives this fantastic ambulance, and Igor fixes a Russian tank captured from the Arabs. They become great buddies, of course, while a lot of studs get their brains shot out. But mainly, the war as here described amid all this profound Israeli scenery is like everybody squirting beer on each other at a fraternity picnic. All the action moves along double time, like a fast...
...twice the adult rate. Says Adman Frederick Bruns: "The priceless thing is repetition. You've got to get to a kid three to five times a week to get him to act on a message." Video Boy acts by nagging his parents to get him a "Blasto-tank-with-twin-rocket -launchers -by -Slambang -Toys." Once he gets it, though, he is invariably disappointed because the toy is always much smaller and much less exciting than it looked on the overdramatized commercial. Thus Video Boy learns a basic lesson of TV viewing: distrust...
...make from thorough!" And "What is Naitsabes spelled backward?" A Queeg in mufti, he compulsively fingers a rubber ball as he orders his overworked underlings to "switch your gorgeous minds to overdrive." From time to time, Sebastian mutters antiheroic cliches to himself, like "I'm a septic tank for the world's ugly secrets...
...which have been built alongside and in front of the towers. A few steps farther is an asphalt pavement, just wide enough to enable armored vehicles to race up and down the border; it is followed by an area of plowed earth and then by Ulbricht's "antifascist" tank ditch, which has actually been dug to stop vehicles that might try to escape from his own East...