Word: brands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ellington is generally regarded as one of the two or three greatest figures in the history of jazz. He showed why he deserves his reputation Saturday night. None of the usual labels apply to the Duke. He doesn't play Dixieland, he doesn't play bop; he plays a brand of music which is his own, and which has survived decades of fads. Although he uses techniques which have gone out of style, such as the wa-wa trumpet mute, Ellington never sounds dated. It is not so much that he has changed with the times; the times...
Space is at a premium in the vending machines because of the extraordinary proliferation of new brands. Tobaccomen hope not only to fit every taste and soothe every fear, but also to cater to the restlessness that is one result of the concern about smoking. Most of the new brands have a consciously antiseptic image-notably the filters (which have now captured 56% of the U.S. market), the lengthy kings (20% of the market), and the menthols (14% ). Liggett & Myers has launched Lark with a "3-piece Keith filter," and Brown & Williamson is test-marketing Breeze filters with menthol...
...Atlantic. Now they arrive by air from the Gabonese capital of Libreville and put down at Lambaréné's modern airport, not far from a modern, antiseptic government hospital. On the short trip up the Ogooué River, the visitors pass natives skimming by in brand-new boats powered by Evinrude outboards. Finally they reach Schweitzer's hospital. Set ghostlike amid wild palms and tangled jungle undergrowth, its tin roofs and ramshackle wooden buildings are worthy of Rain or The Heart of Darkness...
...represent 13% of the U.S. female population but, along with others who can wear their sizes, make 35% of its clothes purchases. Making a hit with the junior sizes, the big companies amassed enough capital to plan beyond a season at a time. They learned better merchandising, pushed brand names with national advertising, mailers and store displays. Increasing capital and slower style changes have allowed them to concentrate on quality control and have reduced the eternal Seventh Avenue panic over a thousand dozen garments turned out with mis-tailored sleeves or weepy dyes...
...wife Betty in a home they bought last year in Princeton, but is not likely to settle merely for the "three Rs" he once proposed as ideal for his state of life: rustication, reading and reflection. As a farewell gesture of respect, Union named Van Dusen to a brand-new traveling professorship, which will start by taking him on a tour of churches and seminaries in Africa...