Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case the little shavers lack imagination, Ken's makers have provided an approved scenario on the back of the box: "Ken has been playing tennis all day. He won every game. He can't wait to tell Barbie (registered trademark) on their date tonight. Oh-oh! Ken looks at his watch (included)...he's only got 15 minutes to get ready..." Not only can you shave him, you can brush his teeth and blow dry his hair...
...scan of the ECAC standings (see box) reveals other interesting trends. Two of Harvard's three wins have come against the worst two teams in the league, Maine (0-3) and Dartmouth (0-2). By contrast, Yale has handed Colgate and Clarkson their only losses, and beat a St. Lawrence team Saturday night that had upset Boston College the evening before. However, it is December, and Yale is still Yale--a team that hasn't finished better than seventh since...
...million volumes, and a fourth compilation of the daily newspaper comic will appear in the spring. Three other cat books also grace the list, including 101 Uses for a Dead Cat (on the list for 27 weeks); together they account for an additional 1.2 million kitty-cartoon albums (see box...
...American economy. Owners will shell out $1.4 billion for 1 million tons of cat food that carry such whisker-licking names as Meow Mix and Tender Vittles. These processed delights consist largely of soybean, corn and wheat. One hundred eighty-nine million dollars' worth of cat-box filler will inevitably follow. Revenues to veterinarians, animal psychologists, pet shops and grooming parlors will add even more millions. All of this must be added to the initial cost of buying the beast...
...cats are better cared for than the 45,000 highly bred and often exotic pedigreed cats on the books of America's nine registry groups (see box). The Cat Fanciers' Association, the leading agency, lists 38,152 cats. While this hardly compares with the 26 million dogs registered with the American Kennel Club, raising new feline breeds is becoming more than a cottage pastime. After one of their three children had grown up and moved away, Edward and Carol Harrison in Palatine, Ill., a Chicago suburb, remortgaged their white frame house to add on a $35,000 cattery...