Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Exiles never forget, of course, but the emigre communities in Miami, San Juan, and New Orleans have calmed down. Extremist groups may still throw a hand grenade down the gangplank of a Russian cruise ship or threaten the airlines of countries resuming diplomatic relations with Cuba, but the lurid billboard in San Juan that showed Cuban soldiers executing prisoners before a bloodsplashed wall disappeared years ago. Hardly anyone remembers its slogan...
...Director Arthur Fürer: "No one has yet hit on the idea of demanding that wine be sold through doctors or pharmacies because hundreds of thousands of people get drunk on it and sometimes cause fatal accidents." Nestle officials insist that their advertising has always stressed, as one billboard in Nigeria puts it, that BREAST MILK IS BEST. Often, however, mothers themselves are undernourished and must supplement their own milk with formula. Nestlé was also a principal architect of an ethical code recently adopted by nine infant-food producers. The code requires that promotional materials in the Third...
...restrictions on "independent expenditures" by individuals on behalf of a candidate. The court held that such a limitation "impermissibly burdens the constitutional right of free expression." Thus as long as a candidate did not authorize or know about such spending, an individual could put up a billboard, take out a newspaper ad, buy TV time, hire doorbell ringers or mail out leaflets to help. Considering the history of politicians and politics in the U.S., the ruling seems extremely naive-leaving a mile-wide loophole for the return of the "fat cat" to the campaign scene...
Taves arrived about seven and nonchalantly snuck into the middle of the line. "I've been a Red Sox fan since '63 and am determined to see every series game," he said. "If I can't get tickets I plan to climb the Windsor Canadian billboard." No greater love hath...
Signs of industrial affluence greeted the visitors-some 200 Protestant and Roman Catholic theologians, social scientists and assorted activists from North and South America-almost from the moment they arrived in Detroit last week. Even in a recession year, the Goodyear billboard near the airport was totting up by the seconds the autos manufactured in 1975: 3,835,001; 3,835,002. But deeper in the city the scene turned bleak: shuttered stores, decaying neighborhoods, jobless men wandering the streets. The contrast seemed particularly telling to the travelers, who had come to the Motor City for a conference on Christian...