One of the strangest things about dispute over advertising is that the greater the fuss the much of a mystery the industry itself seems to become. Advertising is a passionate area. It seems to affect those who attack it and those who defend it in remarkable similar ways. Before long both are exhibiting (1) ______ the same compulsive urge to overstate their case to that it is difficult to believe that the critics and the defenders (2) ______ of advertising are even arguing for the same thing. But just as it seemed sensible for us to regard advertising without go (3) ______ to either extreme, so it also seemed logical to try and find as cold-bloodedly as if we could, what advertising in the Britain (4) ______ of the sixties really was. We knew that they consumed around $ 950 million a (5) ______ year, or roughly 2 percent of the national income. We knew that it employed something over 200,000 individuals, the majority of which were paid salaries considerably above the (6) ______ national average. And we knew that it was supposedly run in accordance certain rather vague and often complex rules and (7) ______ professional orders. Therefore once we tried finding out exactly what all this (8) ______ money went on, what these highly paid individuals did for it (and with it) ,and how the rules and orders influenced them, a curious thing happened. This strange animal called advertising, so disliked by its supporters and so beloved by its defenders, (9) ______ began to disappear. In its place were advertising men and advertising agencies—all working in different ways and to different rules and all showed quite startling differences (10) ______ of competence, taste and effectiveness.