Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important, Zenith lowered its unit profit margin on color-TV sets, enabling it to cut the retail prices of color sets by $30; now a medium-sized set costs about $300. That greatly increased sales-the company has again inched ahead of RCA as the nation's largest seller of color-TV sets. Last month Wright announced that first-quarter sales had risen 22% and net profits had jumped 28%, to $10 million...
...WINTER of 1970, Erich Segal was riding the top of the best-seller list with a novel that was not so much phenomenal literature as it was a literary phenomenon. The book and the movie brought Segal international fame (out selling Sagan in France and Mishima in Japan). It also supplied proportionate hassles. That Yalie reverence, inspired by his association with Yellow Submarine, evolved into cynicism and hostility. It was exacerbated by the cooling of an initially cordial critical reaction. Why didn't they love him more when he was more famous? Segal says, "It was the difference between knowing...
...medical) training has stood him in good stead, but ultimately the novel is little more than a thriller. Crichton is an old hand at those. Not yet 30, he's already had several fair-to-middling successes under a variety of pen names as well as his 1969 best-seller The Andromeda Strain. The Terminal Man shows the benefits of past experience: Only an old hand could think of a sign saying "DO NOT FEED OR MOLEST THE COMPUTER...
...BUCKINGHAM PALACE the staff were all men except for the ticket seller, because the cubicles were by the pool and there was no need for a ladies changing room attendant. The first time I came in about eleven o' clock one morning. the pool was overrun with schoolkids, and a harried young man in elastic slacks was shouting at them from the far end. An old man approached me for my ticket and I asked him. "Is it all right to swim now? Won't I be in the way of all the kids...
...Post-War American Kid grew up reading science fiction. He sheltered C.S. Lewis's Perelandra beneath the edge of a junior high school desk; he tripped across decades of The Martian Chrnoicles on hot, tedious summer afternoons; he liked Kurt Vonnegut for years before Slaughterhouse Five became a best-seller. Then the world changed, and he probably has not read much science fiction since...