Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legend has it that Wall Street's use of the word "bull" comes from the upward toss that a bull gives his horns before charging ahead, while the use of "bear" to describe a short seller comes from the old saying about "selling a bearskin before the bear is caught...
...customer is rarely unsatisfied. For ten, twenty-five, or fifty cents he can take home an outdated best-seller, an old classic, or a valuable curiosity. There are, of course, those who stoically lament the one that got away. ("If I could get my hands on that little old lady who took the complete set of Oscar Wilde for $250, I'd brain...
Highway "hospitality booths" outside Seattle are staffed by hostesses who have direct lines to Expo-Lodging headquarters to help reservationless visitors find a place to stay. Sales of beds and mattresses have risen some 70% (best seller: hideaways) as every available nook and cranny in Seattle is converted into sleeping space...
...industry's largest producer, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem) is test-marketing in Southern California, New England and North Carolina a new king-size nonfilter cigarette called Brandon, which ambitiously aims to displace American Tobacco Co.'s Pall Mall as the top individual seller. And Philip Morris President Joseph F. Cullman 3rd gave some hint of how the industry hopes to fight the medical issue. He told his company's stockholders last week that there is unspecified but "growing evidence that smoking has pharmacological and psychological effects that are of real value to smokers...
...analytical reporting, are just journalistic make-work, Author Boorstin argues); the reality of literature has been distorted by the pseudo-eventful film; the reality of art has been diluted by easily available and excellent color copies. Even God is pseudo: "the Celebrity-Author of the World's Best Seller." Only the world of crime is left as "a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event." Boorstin's buckshot is indiscriminate and incessant; he blasts away at such riddled targets as publicity handouts and celebrity endorsements and searches out new underworlds to conquer. Museums merely conceal the "vital...