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...many people want a blanket full of holes? (See MODERN LIVING...
This year's favorite blanket is full of holes, and meant to be: it is the thermal blanket, a machine-made creation of loose-weave stitches that looks like the afghan Grandma used to crochet...
...does Bristol-Myers do it? Schwartz, a balding and white-fringed executive of 58, runs the company by several credos. One is to blanket three expansive consumer markets-prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs and beauty preparations-with Bristol-Myers products. Another is to pit the company's major divisions against one another by bringing out several types of the same product; thus Bristol-Myers markets a variety of hair tonics (Vitalis, Score, Fitch, Vitapointe), cold pills (Bromo-Quinine, Clinicin, 4-Way) and deodorants (Mum, Ban, Trig). Still another Schwartz principle is to stimulate in his subordinates what...
...show that teen-agers spend $570 million on toiletries, $1.5 billion a year on entertainment. $3.6 billion on women's clothes-$12 billion all told. They account for 25% of the record industry, 35% of the movie audience. "Action comedies with music," like Beach Party, Bikini Beach, Beach Blanket Bingo and the forthcoming How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, get made for only one sweet reason, explains Samuel Z. Arkoff of American International Pictures. "They're a kind of never-never land in modern undress." Teen-agers are not necessarily flattered by so much commercial attention. This month...
...want any downs,' " she bellows. "I just want 'ups' and 'ups' and 'ups.' " Even Snoopy-whom Short sees as a kind of Christ figure, a hound of heaven alternately threatening to run away with Linus' blanket and offering to Charlie Brown a tail-wagging friendship-is obsessed with a "weed-claustrophobia" that makes him a less than desirable outfielder, a fallible catcher...