Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that doesn't appeal to the client, how about this easy-to-remember product name: ZIT. The caption of the ad practically dictates itself: '''This is ZIT!" The subheadline to read: Does ZIT wash? Yes! Does Zit wear? Yes! Does ZIT do something more for your figure? You bet! If this is ZIT get LOST...
...museums and famous restaurants. The U.S. visitor is culturally never very far from home. But the Far East is a plunge into the strange and unfamiliar. Music suddenly becomes an atonal screeching; men bow instead of shaking hands, sit cross-legged on the floor to eat dinner and mostly wear twisted cloths or even skirts instead of trousers. The straight lines of Western architecture are replaced by curlicues and curves; landscapes become shrouded in Oriental mist; night sounds have an uneasy difference. And poverty is not a shabby destitution but something as stark, as cruel and as immediate as death...
...country music is supported by a bureaucracy as complex as a vertical trust. There are more than 100 music publishers in the city, more than 200 songwriters, more than 1,000 instrumentalists. The town swarms with so many agents that, remarks a singer, "they just about have to wear badges to keep from booking each other." The kingmakers of Nashville are the big A. & R. men, Columbia's Law, RCA's Chet Atkins, Decca's Owen Bradley, but the first citizen these days is Jim Reeves, 35, an ex-baseball player (Houston Buffalos). Singer Reeves has written about 100 songs...
Digitronics' electronic Berlitz can translate teletype and magnetic tape and punched cards into a common language, or even bypass punched cards entirely by taking information direct from the teletype to computers. First purchaser: Alcoa's Wear-Ever subsidiary. Wear-Ever will use the machine (price: $79,000) to take orders for pots and pans, at the rate of 3.000 words per minute, from the central-office computer, where the orders are assembled, and relay them by teletype to warehouses for shipping. The converter will also feed orders coming in by teletype from sales offices to the computer for billing. Wear...
...Henry Cabot Lodge was the of the show in his early-morning performance. Looking dazed and the worse for wear, he told report "I'm just Citizen Lodge now. Just Citizen Lodge." Summing up his career amused. "I've served 17 years in election office. and four. . . five. . . ah. . . is pointed office." When one of the asked him. "Do you plan to a book?" Lodge replied, "What is mean, a book...