Word: disks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abroad, acquiring computer-programming services, a lamp manufacturer and TV plants in Germany and France. Last week, in one of many "substantial acquisitions" foreseen by ITT-Europe Executive Vice President James V. Lester, the company added to the fold West Germany's Teves, a major producer of automobile disk and drum brakes...
...John Bell Williams, 48, a Democrat for Goldwater in 1964, who generally avoided airing his racist views and got 194,230 votes. Despite Winter's early lead, the pros picked Williams as the likely winner, since he stands to pick up the 118,675 votes cast for Radio Disk Jockey Jimmy Swan and the 74,726 for Barnett, both implacable racists...
...Street clerk who in 1940 started punching out, as he called it, "levity with brevity," produced 500 million buttons for cause carriers of all stripes ("Win with Willkie," "We Need Adlai Badly," along with such contemporary coinages as "Bomb Hanoi," "Make Love, Not War"), ever true to his own disk's boast: "I don't care who wins-my business is buttons"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
CARLA THOMAS, 25, daughter of a Memphis disk jockey, was recently voted the favorite singer of U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam, an honor won last year by the Supremes. Like the Detroit trio, Carla usually persuades by gentleness on The Queen Alone (Stax). Her voice is slightly husky, although at times she hones it to a piercing cry that cuts straight through the rocking under rhythms...
...Chicago's Manual for the Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations has sold nearly 900,000 copies. Oklahoma's Plowman's Folly, written in 1943 by a county agricultural agent, Edward H. Faulkner, not only sold 355,000 copies, but, by advocating shallow disk harrowing for small-grain crops instead of deep plowing, literally reshaped the landscape of rural America...