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Americans traditionally treat their four-legged household pets like members of the family. And they feed them accordingly. Today, even table scraps are not good enough-which means that the nation's 3,000 dog-and cat-food makers and marketers contemplate 1968 sales of over $900 million, up $300 million since 1965. At that price, the doggy dish runs all the way from chicken croquettes to chunks of pure beef...
...food makers insist that there is a little of the gourmand in every dog and cat, and last year they spent $52.5 million to advertise their argument more than 80% of it on television. Accounting for some 75% of the advertising dollars were: General Foods (Gaines and Top Choice-$11.5 million), Ralston Purina (Chow-$11 1 million), Quaker Oats (Puss 'n Boots Ken-L Ration-$9,000,000), Carnation (Friskies-$4.2 million), and Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Alpo-$4,000,000). Ten years ago, the entire industry spent only $21.2 million on advertising...
...industry has pushed hard to learn as much as possible about its fourlegged customers and their masters. Attempts to persuade the Census Bureau to include the pet population in its statistics have so far failed, but by industry estimates the U.S. has 25 million dogs, 20 million cats and 30 million pet-owning families. Surveys reveal that a family owning a dog or cat has an income of $8,000 or more and is itself consuming increasing amounts of prepared food-which means fewer scraps to feed pet appetites...
Next to putting the cat out and kissing the wife goodnight, the most common late-evening ritual for many Americans is tuning in the TV weather forecast. Just about every TV station in the nation has its own weatherman nowadays, but the trouble with a great number of them is that they are cloudy and mostly windy...
...ordinary people with ordinary emotions that had no socialistic message to dull it; it appealed to people everywhere. One of its features: the first nude love scene in the history of the Czechoslovak cinema. Other top films range in style from Vojtech Jasný's fantasy about a cat with magic glasses who sees through human deceptions, When the Cat Comes, to Jaromil Jires' charming record of a couple's reminiscences on the eve of their first child's birth, The First...