Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flowering Green. Long before England's Masterman had his say, Philadelphians and Bostonians were moving to the outskirts of town. Ben Franklin packed up, left Philadelphia's High Street and unpacked again at the corner of Second and Sassafras, grumbling that "the din of the Market increases upon me: and that with frequent interruptions has, I find, made me say some things twice over." And after all, as one proud New Englander says, "When Paul Revere needed help for the city of Boston, where did he go? The suburbs...
...enterprising Parisian pimp named Pierre Sorlut set out two years ago to corner the nymphlet market. Pierre recruited his pubescent charmers among girls aged 12 to 18, first by seducing them and then by arranging dates with wealthy clients with infantile tastes. Pierre's particular prey were the pouting little imitators of Brigitte Bardot, with puffball hairdos and ambitions to become starlets or models. "How could I live without my little cats?" Pierre would say as he collected the earnings of Janine, Colette and Monique. If a girl proved difficult, Pierre would speak musingly of vitriol and its effects...
...dodgers who, he claims, cheat ed the government of $65 million last year - enough to pay for a year's educa tion for 1,000,000 Filipino children. His biggest reform was to institute a "con trolled decontrol" of the peso designed to create a free currency market within four years. Under his new regulations, import ers of "essential goods" get their dollars at more favorable rates than those who bring in Cadillacs and air conditioners...
...unreserved hotel rooms, cadge for scarce festival tickets, and moan their way through traffic tie-ups that rival rush hours in Manhattan. But customs red tape has been minimized, and except for the Iron Curtain countries and Yugoslavia, visas are burdens of the past, and so is the black market for currency...
...dancing. Best jazz is at Vienna's Fatty's Saloon and the Adebar, Rome's Bricktop's on the Via Veneto, and Paris' Caveau de la Huchette. To end the evening, Paris has the traditional onion soup at Les Halles, Paris' great produce market. There is also Le Drug Store on the Champs Elysées, where the spécialtiés de la maison are hamburgers...