Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they dance in Guinea, buy a fez from Morocco, eat a soft-shell Maryland crab. While the Malaysians aren't looking, you can run Malaysian tin ore through your fingers. You can eat walleyed pike from Minnesota and see a chef from India baking bread in mud pots. In the calm oasis of the Irish pavilion, you can drink coffee primed with Irish whisky and listen on earphones to actors like Micheal MacLiammoir and Siobhan McKenna reading Yeats, Swift or Synge. In the Indonesian pavilion, you can look over the Indonesian girls that were personally selected by President Sukarno...
Literary Caddies. Palmer commands the added income with the effortless grace that goes into a good tee shot. An editor of Golf Digest-one of the many magazines that also buy prose from the pros-writes Palmer's copy; the line drawings illustrating the text are traced from photographs taken of Palmer in Pittsburgh in 1959. About the only editorial control that Sam Snead exerts over his column, which has been running since 1940, is to insist that he be shown wearing that familiar Snead trademark, the porkpie straw...
...princely 100%. On Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, a one-carat ring of high quality now retails for $1,600 to $1,700, up from $1,000 five years ago. Leading diamond dealers, not unmindful that talk of higher future prices will induce some would-be purchasers to buy sooner rather than later, estimate that in ten years a one-carat stone will bring between...
...marquise and brilliant cut are sparkling. New York is the richest market (20% to 25% of all U.S. sales), followed by Chicago, Texas and Southern California. Surprisingly, many Americans order their diamonds through the mail. Says a partner in one Manhattan firm that caters to customers who buy large and expensive stones: "Sears sells more diamonds than Tiffany's, but Harry Winston probably sells the most...
...major partner. Though the government opposes U.S. "takeovers" of French companies, it has been unable so far to induce other French electronic equipment makers to bail out Bull. Last week the bankers and politicians were negotiating a complex deal to split Bull into subsidiaries, let General Electric buy a share of some of them. President Schulz flew to Manhattan to talk with...