Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is precious little mating or dancing. Johnny (Gerald S. O'Loughlin) and Wilma (Renee Taylor) have one of those marriages that resemble the state of chastity. This night, Wilma wants sex. But there is no love for Johnny, an advertising salesman who has just lost the Xerox account. As the pair bicker and belt each other a la Edward Albee's Virginia Woolf, it soon becomes clear that Wilma is twice the man Johnny is. Long ago, she kicked the living libido...
...make a statistical study of his own. From 1950 to 1966, according to Hyman's figures, U.S. firms have increased their British investments 600%, from $840 million to $5.6 billion. Today, some 1,650 companies owned or controlled by U.S. interests provide jobs for 500,000 Britons, account for 10% of all British industrial sales-and are responsible for as much as 18% of British exports. "There has been vociferous criticism of American enterprise seizing the so-called new 'commanding heights' of our economy," says Hyman. "I can only observe that had it not done so, such...
Philip Morris discovered women smokers now account for 42% of a market that last year consumed 527.8 billion cigarettes. And the "swinging woman of the '60s," to whom the company is pitching its Slims, apparently likes the idea of a cigarette of her own. Test-marketed in the San Francisco Bay area, the new brand rapidly gathered 1½% of all sales; additional cartons had to be shipped in by air. Since 1% is considered a good share of the market for any brand, Philip Morris decided to skip the two more months of planned testing and go with...
Tony Franciosa is People's handsome, daring ace reporter. His editor (Gene Barry) occupies an office that is only slightly more opulent than, say, Hugh Hefner's pad. Expense-account cash is as abundant and accessible as scratch paper. The researchers are not only resolutely clever but demure, sensuous and beautiful...
...German Renaissance"; two of them suggest that it might have been better advertised as "the Return of the Visigoths." The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach is a paralyzed semidocumentary in which the Top 20 Bach hits are rendered by some bewigged court musicians. Signs of Life, an Antonioniesque account of the Wehrmacht in Greece in 1944, belies its title...