Word: sponsoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sprouting out of the New York Times one morning last week was a full-page advertisement that showed a mushroom cloud, huge, horrific, indistinct. WE MUST POSTPONE OUR COMING TESTS, proclaimed the ad's sponsor, an organization called the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy-ACT NOW FOR MAN'S SAKE. The way to do that, said the committee, was to 1) write President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon; 2) write Congressmen, editors and commentators; 3) "organize a group" or work with existing groups "in your community." The point to make: the U.S.'s summer series...
...underscore the soundness of the country's economy," the Advertising Council, a nonprofit organization, last week announced a four-month antirecession campaign. Corporations and business organizations will sponsor $15 million worth of ads in magazines, newspapers, on radio and TV, stressing the theme "Your Future Is Great in a Growing America...
...Harvard Liberal Union announced yesterday that its forum, scheduled for April 28, has been switched to this Friday, April 25. At the same time, the Congregational-Presbyterian Student Fellowship gave notice that it will also sponsor a forum on the religious controversy, to be held April 28, at the First Church in Cambridge, Congregational...
...Committee's purpose is to compile and distribute reports on the disarmament problem and sponsor speakers representing all opinions on the subject, Miss Mirin said. the organization will be divided into subcommittees to study various aspects of disarmament...
Argentine Dictator Juan Peron, a racing bug and sponsor of Driver Fangio, got so enthusiastic about Maserati racers in 1954 that he handed Adolfo Orsi a $3,000,000 machine-tool order to help speed Argentine industrialization. In turn, Adolfo enthusiastically allowed Peron three years to pay. A year later, when Peron was ousted, Argentina had paid only a fraction of its bill, all in wheat to the Italian government, which has yet to convert it into cash for Maserati. To top it off, Adolfo took on another $437,500 machine-tool order from the Spanish government-which has also...