Word: brackets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer, Novelist Mickey Spillane. The crucial difference between the two is that Spillane writes for the paperbacks whereas Silliphant writes for television-a medium that devours prose the way a school of piranha devours a steer. Silliphant, along with four or five other apprentices in his own exalted income bracket, works 13 hours a day, seven days a week, feeding the cathode tube - with such astonishing success that he has become something of a legend in the trade. "Stirling Silliphant," says one producer, "is almost inhuman. He is a writing ma chine. Any man who's been in this...
...small-scale farmers with little capital, price supports provide only meager help. The less a farmer produces, the less he gets from price supports. "Most of the help," says Higbee, "goes to a relatively small percentage of upper-bracket operators who are better off than the majority of taxpayers...
...Eleven are remarkably similar. Roughly one-half as big as a Boeing 707, both planes have two fanjet engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, cruise at about 550 m.p.h. and accommodate up to 83 passengers. Price: in the $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 bracket. The big difference is that the BAC One-Eleven will make its maiden flight in June; the DC-9 will not be ready to fly before 1965. And the British have already sold 41 One-Elevens, including twelve to Braniff, while Douglas does not yet have a single order...
...high school senior about to become a freshman at U.C.L.A.. where his major will be "kind of general, maybe I'll end up in business administration." With his fellows he stands "in a lump," distinguishable only by name, weight, hair coloring, and small variables within high-bracket Pasadena youth society...