Word: fall
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...first began cheering Alfred's finest athlete when she was a local high school student. But Dorothy never spoke to Warren until last summer, when both were waiting on tables at summer school. Hesitantly, Warren asked her to the movies; she refused. He persisted, and finally last fall, when Dorothy became an Alfred freshman, she agreed-if another girl went along. After many Coke-and-walk dates, they kissed goodnight. "He's such a gentleman," she said. "And he knew the vast difference between...
...salaries and provide the arenas have tailed sluggishly behind. But last week three major sports could report progress toward bigger and better things. ¶ The fledgling American Football League is now solidly stocked with college stars of the past season, expects to be in full flight by this fall in New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver, Houston, Buffalo, Boston and Dallas. The money is pledged, and stadiums are available. Relations are raw between the American and the established National Football League, and if open war breaks out, it will be over charges and countercharges of invasion of territorial rights...
...Last fall the commission decided the time had come to persuade the tobacco companies to agree to their own ceasefire. For one thing, filter pitches were losing their appeal because conflicting claims were nullifying one another. And there was the example of Winston, consistently the bestselling filter, which had never used the health puff. One of the early entrants in the low-tar derby, Kent switched its main theme to "filters best for the flavor you like...
What really brought on the new ground rules was an aggressive campaign introducing the new filter brand Life last fall, which resulted in a formal FTC complaint against Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. for false filter advertising claims. The Life ads convinced the FTC something had to be done for the industry as a whole, and the formal complaint convinced the cigarette makers that it would be prudent to agree to end the filter derby. Said Kintner gratefully, noting that cigarette advertisers spend $190 million a year: "It is no small feat for them to change the major emphasis...
...rich Sirte district are gushing 32,500 bbl. a day between them. The company is planning construction of a 30-in. pipeline to the Mediterranean's Gulf of Sirte with an initial daily capacity of 100,000 bbl., hopes to have oil flowing through by the fall of 1961. Libyan crude is similar in quality to Mideast oil, for which European refineries are designed. Because deposits are not deep, and drilling is close to the sea, transportation to ports is easy...