Word: tornadoes
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...advertisers, the Federal Trade Commission lately has often seemed like a relentless white tornado, working to make them come clean about their products. But the agency's most ambitious undertaking-a program to make thousands of big advertisers produce documentary evidence backing up their claims for product pricing, safety and performance-has so far proved a disappointing dud. Over the past year, the effort has produced a mountain of data but little more than a molehill of definite proof or definitive disproof of product plugs...
Never a Note. The key man in changing Nixon's mind was Secretary of the Treasury John Connally, the Texas tornado who moved into the job early in the year and quickly developed an amazing rapport with the President. A Democrat who had impressed Nixon by helping him find oil money in his 1968 presidential campaign, despite his own belated support of Hubert Humphrey, Connally had earlier turned down Nixon offers to become Secretary of Defense, but did serve impressively on a committee studying reorganization of the Executive Branch. The acquisition of Connally was another Nixon surprise and success, giving...
...that jam, found his groove, and went on to blank the Chicago White Sox 1-0. When he squeaked to No. 21 last week by defeating the Boston Red Sox 5-3 in extra innings, a near capacity crowd of 32,858 showed up in Fenway Park despite tornado alerts and a rainstorm that delayed the start of the game for two hours...
...their cars in the parking lot and call up to the window, "Is Lobo O.K.?" The kids hold the raging beast down, inside the house, until a split-second before the visitor comes in the front door. Then Lobo is allowed to rush out the back door, a tornado of bristles and snarls, in a vain (hopefully) attempt to race around the establishment and up the front steps in time to rip the pants off whoever is going in the front door...
Earl Brown, a grocer, and his wife and twelve-year-old son had heard the tornado alerts early in the morning and knew that the watch expired at 5 p.m. At 4:30 they figured the twister had missed them. Minutes later it hit, demolishing the entire front of the house and turning the family car around...