Word: byproducts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Youth Alliance was a byproduct of the Roxbury riot...
Characteristically, the Economist has not bothered to congratulate itself. As the editors see it, accurate prophecy is merely a byproduct of the magazine's job: analyzing international politics with a depth and detachment that few other publications ever match. Its calm authoritativeness has made it a favorite of political and business leaders in the U.S. as well as Britain. Exerting an influence far beyond its 90,000 circulation, the Economist blends concise reports of the week's news with lengthy analyses of key issues. It shuns abstractions and is seldom stuffy. The writing is pungent, specific, frequently touched...
...Braniff or Alka-Seltzer." To help word of such coups get around, Founder Wells issued a sort of Madison Avenue manifesto promising more Braniff-style "advertising that will generate, as a byproduct, its own publicity." Western Union, Burma Shave and La Rosa spaghetti, she says, came clamoring for "a Braniff or an Alka-Seltzer." Utica Club beer signed up with the explanation that "it is once in a decade that an agency like this is formed...
...retired to a county seat. Visited by an all-star team of secret agents including William Holden, Charles Boyer and John Huston, he is persuaded to re-enter Her Majesty's Service, an experience that he soon finds simply SMERSHing. Along the way he encounters Joanna Pettet, the byproduct of his illicit union with Mata Hari; Peter Sellers, a green-gilled card shark who impersonates James Bond; Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond, James's narky nephew; and the ubiquitous Ursula Andress, who has become to spy spoofs what pits are to olives: tasteless, but unavoidable...
...sued LIFE'S corporate parent, Time Inc., under an old, tough New York State civil rights statute that requires the written consent of any living person when his name or picture is used "for the purposes of trade." Originally aimed at unscrupulous advertising, that law was a 1903 byproduct of the Warren-Brandeis article. To avoid conflict with the First Amendment, New York courts have construed it as permitting the press truthfully to portray anyone without his consent as long as he was involved in news of public interest. But that privilege rarely if ever protected false or "fictionalized...