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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...champions? Do sports heroes owe their success to a lifetime diet of the cereal? Or is it merely that the folks at General Mills pay the stars to eat their flaky product for the cameras? Those weighty questions were faced squarely last week by Olympic Decathlon Medalist Bruce Tenner, who does commercials for the cereal and whose picture appears on the box. San Francisco District Attorney Joseph Freitas slapped General Mills with a truth-in-advertising suit, charging that Tenner's Wheaties ads falsely imply a causal connection between his taste in breakfast food and his athletic prowess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Bruce's Bowl | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...these cereals," said Freitas, whose prosecutor's office handles consumer fraud complaints. "That, coupled with what appears to us to be misleading ads which encourage kids to believe that a product will somehow make them champion athletes, led us to take action." Freitas' suit demanded proof that Tenner really eats the cereal and that he had done so since childhood. "I like Wheaties, and I eat them two or three times a week," retorted an indignant Tenner at a press conference organized by General Mills. "When you're a hero to young kids," he added gravely, "they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Bruce's Bowl | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...goofy dragon; its tail is dollar bills, its hide is plated with nickels for scales. As its pink wings flap, its head lolls over the façade with a kind of maniacal sloth. Above this symbol of Capital, in the tower, sits the old five-and-tenner Frank Winfield Woolworth himself, observing the seagirt isle with the proprietary air of King Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gorgeous Parody | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

Rodino had long since been thoroughly convinced that impeachment was warranted by the committee's vast accumulation of evidence that was presented by Special Counsel John Doar and Minority Counsel Albert Tenner through eleven weeks of closed hearings and laid out in 36 notebooks of "statements of information." Rodino had one main aim as the days of decision approached: to secure maximum committee support for any articles of impeachment that would be recommended to the House. He knew that there was no hope of enlisting about ten Republicans firmly committed to Nixon's defense, but he hoped that articles could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Fateful Vote to Impeach | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

...There is definite evidence that the quality of the federal judiciary has been going up," says Albert Tenner Jr., former head of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. Nixon has appointed a total of 135 people to the federal bench, and four of his nominations are pending in the Senate. The A.B.A., which rates each one before confirmation, found 72 "well qualified" or "extremely well qualified"; not a single nominee was ruled out as "not qualified." John Kennedy managed to nominate eight men whom the A.B.A. blackballed, and Lyndon Johnson four. Nixon has followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Nixon's Other Judges | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

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