Word: bazars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Niece Nancy. Started by Harper & Brothers, the book publishers, as a sort of milady's "bazar," the magazine was bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1913 for $10,000, gained a third a in 1929. "We wouldn't take $10 million now," says Bazaar's publisher, William M. Fine. Last year advertising revenues topped $8,000,000, making Bazaar the second biggest moneymaker in the Hearst empire. And in the biggest ad deal in magazine history, Celanese Corp. has bought 100 pages of ads in Bazaar's October issue...
Giving their views and assessing public opinion in their respective countries will be: Edgardo Bartoli of Italy, political editor of II Mundo and radio and television commentator: Robi Chakravati of India, assistant editor of Amrita Bazar patrika and a contributor to The Economic Weekly of Calcutta...
...more big expeditions in mind, says William Unsoeld, 36, a Peace Corps official and one of the five U.S. climbers who scaled Mount Everest last month. Unsoeld and National Geo graphic Photographer Barry Bishop, 30, had to be carried pickaback from a base camp to Namche Bazar, where a helicopter hustled them to the United Mission Hospital at Katmandu. Now recovered from respiratory infections, both men are still under treatment for severe cases of frostbite-with doctors hoping that only the tips of their toes may have to be amputated. And was their victory Pyrrhic? "An experience like Everest," says...
...soil. In Florence and Milan, the Rockefellers' International Basic Economy Corp. has opened eight supermarkets that the Italians fondly call "the Americano stores"; the Americanos have brought down the price of pasta as much as 40%. In Belgium, Chicago's Jewel Tea and Antwerp's Grand Bazar company have combined to open eleven supermarkets in the past two years, and last fortnight announced plans to open four more. Not only do these Belgian markets dramatically undersell corner grocers (examples: 5? v. 8? for a cake of soap. 52? v. 70? for a pound of cheese), but they...