Word: avons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officer watches the rulers of the ancient world reeling around the deck and yearns that the earth were "on wheels." That is very nearly what Director Peter Brook has achieved in his whirling, boisterous version of Shakespeare's long, intractable tragedy, which opened last week in Stratford-upon-Avon. The play is not very often produced: exclusive of intermission, it runs 3% hours and with 42 scenes is as sprawling as a map of the Roman Empire...
Mary A. Ziegenfus Avon Park...
...Avon, Conn...
...hyperthyroid auction era arrived in 1972, when Avon Books spent $1 million for Thomas Harris' I'm Okay, You 're Okay. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men sold for $1 million in 1974; two years later their The Final Days fetched $1,550,000. Other notable $1 million-plus books include Erich Segal's Oliver's Story ($1,410,000), E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime ($1,850,000), Dorothy Uhnak's The Investigation ($1,595,000), William Safire's Full Disclosure ($1,375,000) and McCullough's phenomenal The Thorn Birds, which nearly broke...
...corporate campaign, J.P. Stevens is being isolated from its companions on Wall Street. Avon Products and Manufacturers Hanover Trust have both censured Stevens employment practices by severing board-room connections. According to former big-businessman Sen. Charles Percy (R-Ill.), Stevens has done a "disservice to every responsible business and industry." Their illegal and unethical deeds are not limited to unfair labor practices; corporate America is finding their company extremely distasteful...