Hasta La Creative!

During Sunday’s “Mad Men,” the future arrived at SC&P in the form of an IBM 360, which sent the creatives into a tizzy — primarily by hogging space in their huddle room. Other big changes: Peggy became Don’s boss on the Burger Chef account, Don started drinking in the office again and then drunk-dialed Freddy Rumsen, who forebodingly asked him, ” Are you just going to kill yourself and give them what they want?” Meanwhile, things were a little lighter in the world of the Sterling family, as daughter Margaret went full-on hippy, joined a commune and changed her name to “Marigold.”

But what real news was going on in the ad world at the time? Check out the latest in our Throwback Thursday Ad Age headlines, this time from May 1969.

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