Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That is a hell of a position for people who consider themselves problem solvers, pacesetters and molders of public opinion." It is also a hell of a position for businessmen. Last year, Negroes spent $30 billion on consumer items, or 6% of the national total, and as Louise Hexter, account executive for Norman, Craig & Kummel, says, "It is utterly absurd to exclude them from your advertising." Nonetheless, admen are proceeding with extreme caution because, says Mrs. Hexter, "we're scared to death. We're scared of anything that will cause adverse publicity...
...apartment units to be started across the U.S. this year. Construction of one-family homes is also rebounding. Last week the Commerce Department reported that total private-housing starts rose to an annual rate of 1,598,000 units during September, the highest since February 1964. But apartments account for 40% of new housing so far this year, and Arthur Pomponio, president of the Apartment Association, insists that the apartment share will grow to 45% of all starts...
Kinasewich offered three suggestions to account for the shift to Rhodes Scholarships...
...this year center forward Charlie Thomas, with seven goals, is leading the team in scoring. Phil Kydes is next with five. Skip Marotta and Russ Bell, each with two, and Steve Orlins with a single tally, account for the rest of the team's scores...
This may, along with the mass media, account for the stereotyped nature of hippie style. And in part the hippies are simply an anti-style, the negative of the affluent middle-class life style. After all there are only so many things you can do to blow straight people's minds...