Word: snowdrift
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...possessions, the stereo set, transistor and white antiseptic machine for nonliving that he calls his "home unit." He adores his wife (Barbara Caruso) though she makes him a voyeur to his own cuckolding. He has unquestioning faith in his friends, though they are parasitic phonies. Perishing in a snowdrift of optimistic clichés, Bentley loses all - home, wife, job, future...
Skiers considered themselves blood brothers, shared racing wax and car racks, casually draped parkas over pine boughs by the trail, and stacked their skis in the nearest snowdrift. Today, all that has changed. With 4,000,000 enthusiasts crowding into 1,200 ski areas, the sport's open-hearth atmosphere has taken on a decided chill...
...company that made the matches: Ohio Match. That led him into lumber investments, and at roughly the same time he logically acquired companies that could make his cans and bottles, lithograph his labels and use his tomatoes for catsup. His biggest merger came in 1960 with Wesson Oil & Snowdrift Co., and last year Simon took over W. P. Fuller. While studying rotogravure printing for Ohio Match, Simon got interested in McCall Corp., bought a 36% interest in the company. He has tripled McCall's profits largely by reorganizing its printing operations, and has helped make McCall's magazine...
...Dane. Polaroid's little boy with the trumpet, playing Minuet in G while his daddy snaps his picture, was tops in "Gifts, Cameras, Watches." The competition in the "Auto Accessories" classification was fantastically close and exciting. Goodyear's frustrated commuter, with his summer treads spinning in a snowdrift, just edged out Purolator Oil Filter's Moonlight Ride-the one with the terrific looking girl who gets in under the car in her evening dress, removes a clogged oil filter with a monkey wrench, and smears oil sludge all over her date when she kisses...
FOOD MERGER will join Hunt Foods (sales last year: $147 million) with Wesson Oil and Snowdrift Co. (sales last year: $160 million) if stockholders approve. Hunt already owns more than 50% of Wesson's common stock...