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...park. Yet every time Buckley opened a newspaper, there was Rocky's determined visage adorning a full-page ad filled with short-sentence solutions to the Viet Nam war, riots in the cities and inflation. Buckley finally asked Associate Editor C. H. Simonds to see if he could outdo the Manhattan agency of Jack Tinker & Partners Inc., which supplied the Rocky ads. The result, in the current National Review...
...well as black. The supermarket aims to reward its customers with an annual cash rebate on their purchases (perhaps $50 for every $1,000 worth of goods bought) and, eventually, dividends on their stock. There will be other returns as well. The store promises to create 50 new jobs, outdo local chain stores in offering such "ethnic appeal" items as chitlins and hog maws. Far more important in an area whose residents insist that they are being gouged by white storeowners, the supermarket's prices will reflect the scant buying power of its customers...
...obscenity charges and given a five-year sentence that was later upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Still free pending a hearing for a reduced sentence, Ginzburg is anything but penitent. For months he has been expensively promoting a new magazine, Avant-Garde, which promises to emulate if not outdo Eros. One page of a recent ad shows a girl, eyes shut, mouth open, in ecstasy. On the opposite page is prose to match, describing the magazine's contents: "An orgasm of the mind. Total immersion in sensual pleasure. Love on a mink blanket...
...outdone by Andy Williams, who featured his wife, two children and 38 relatives on his show, last week Dean Martin turned the cameras on his wife and seven children as well as Frank Sinatra and his clan (Mia was conspicuously absent). But for sheer numbers, no one can outdo the singing King Family, who last week turned out 45 strong for their first Christmas special. Since it followed hard on the heels of their Thanksgiving show, the next blowout viewers can presumably expect is "The King Family Ground Hog Day Special...
Overburdened Aides. Nor has Johnson succeeded in stimulating much new thought or inspiring men to outdo themselves-a fact underscored by the impending departure of such talented second-echelon officials as Assistant Attorney General John Doar or State Department Policy Planner Zbigniew