Word: salesrooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Before you are inundated with letters from critics of the U.S. pavilion at Expo 67 [June 2], I must tell of my own delight. The country with the best and biggest of everything does not bore visitors with a salesroom or the insides of factories. How refreshing! Besides dollars and engineering brains, Americans have heart, foolishness, creative hands. The apple corer dreamed up by some ingenious Yankee, the hand sewing machine, the wooden-paddle washing machine were all forerunners of today's American technology. Should anyone doubt it, the space capsules swinging aloft will remind him. Yes, there...
...knight of conscience with a 20-20 vision of ethics, and he finally tilts fearlessly with his friend Charlie, but the reversal of roles is too belated to be convincing. The open stage is maddeningly unsuitable for Charlie, so that the drawing-room setting seems perched in a furniture salesroom waiting to be price-tagged for clearance...
Gone are the clays when a prospective buyer could just bound into an auto salesroom and announce that what he saw in his future was a Ford, Buick or Chevrolet. Now, in order to choose from a bewildering selection of car names, he may need The World Almanac, a foreign-language guide, a vest-pocket bestiary, and perhaps a celestial-navigation chart. Already on the market are such prestigious monikers as Ford's Galaxie 500 XL (the XL means nothing at all), Chevrolet's Impala or Corvair Monza Spyder (apparently spelled with a y to avoid the insect...
...Piri Halasz roamed through showrooms in New York City and New Jersey, brought along an uncle who was once a car salesman himself. Correspondent Bill Shelton borrowed Correspondent Marvin Zim's Volkswagen as trade-in bait, made the rounds of Chicago car dealers, found Jim Moran's salesroom harder to escape from without a new car than anywhere else...