Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roof. With success, Tange found himself growing restless with the international modern style he had inherited from the West, increasingly probed into Japan's deep architectural past. There he found heavy beams and posts (necessary in an earthquake-plagued country), a love of structural expression, and at the most primitive level, ancient pit houses with thatched roofs that heavily emphasize weight and volume (as opposed to the elegantly simple floating structures with shoji screens familiar to most Westerners...
Overriding all is what Hall wryly calls his "ten-point program'' for sales success: the first nine points are distribution. To get his cards into the stores and keep them there, he set up a sales system that replaced the helter-skelter collection of boxes under the counter with a long display rack that put the selection out in the open. Hallmark sells the display racks to retailers at cost, also assumes responsibility for keeping the store's stock-both from Hallmark and from competitors-up-to-date, re-ordering when the cards...
...clattering after Author Metalious' steam-powered first novel, Peyton Place, the sequel bears all the marks of a book whacked together on a long weekend. The original novel required readers interested only in literary privy-peeping to wear out their forefingers spelling through long passages devoted, with some success, to such matters as scene-setting and characterization. Return has little more scene-setting than a limerick, and the characterization is negligible. The meat of the book is as strong-flavored as bear steak-"Jennifer lay awake in the dark, smiling. She touched the welts on her thighs, running...
...Success in meeting the goal, which is $3,000 higher than last year's, will depend on the effectiveness of entry solicitors in contacting students and on the awareness of the student body that ten dollars is the gift expected and requested, Howard J. Phillips '62, co-chairman of the campaign, emphasized last night...
...other chairman, stressed that ten dollars is a reasonable annual contribution to charity. "Inflation makes the increased giving doubly necessary," Crystal said. He further compared the $15,000 goal at Harvard with the $40,000 contributed annually at Yale and the $28,000 at Princeton. The reason for their success, he stated, is general acceptance of the ten dollar gift...