Word: classics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of more obscure people, what makes a figure public is often painfully difficult to define. In a classic example, is a newspaper violating privacy by publishing the photograph of a woman jumping to her death? Her husband thought so, and sued the Los Angeles Examiner. But the state courts ruled in effect that by choosing such a spectacular method of killing herself, his wife had made herself a public figure, thereby forfeiting the right of privacy...
...classic case of a company that needed to find a better mousetrap -for the second time. Chicago's American Hair & Felt Co. introduced felt carpet underpadding in the '20s and cornered the market, but in the early 1960s it was nearly trampled by the consumer stampede to sponge rubber. Today the company, renamed Ozite Corp.,† is bounding back. Sales rose from $11.7 million in 1964 to $18.8 million last year, and are expected to reach $35 million in 1966. Earnings quadrupled to $892,000 along the way. Ozite's better mousetrap: indoor-out door rugs...
...scheduled première night of the Ypsilanti Greek Theater last week, there was a plywood stage covering the infield and classic columns standing in front of the bases of the Eastern Michigan University ball park. From the home-team dugout, a 16-piece orchestra played eerie music, specially composed by Iannis Xenakis, while 1,500 gowned and black-tied first-nighters took their blue-cushioned seats in the weather-beaten grandstand. The guests included Broadway Actress Rosemary Harris and a clutch of local politicians, but this was one première where it was more important to see than...
...Given the Bresler-Duddy treatment, almost any fledgling songbird can be preened into a passable nightclub performer. Take the classic case of Bobbe (nee Barbara) Norris, 23. When she moved into a one-room apartment in Manhattan last year about the only experience she could boast was singing at high school proms in her native San Francisco. A friend got her an audition with Columbia Records, which signed her to a recording contract and sent her to Norman Rosemont, a high-powered producer-manager, who got her booked into the elegant Persian Room in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel...
Behind all the squabbling stands the awkward fact that a rapid rise in interest rates-the classic but imperfect monetary weapon against inflation-hurts some segments of the economy (such as savings institutions and housing) but leaves others (such as banks and industry) relatively unscathed. Partly for this reason, there are limits to how much credit can be tightened without so dislocating the economy as to threaten a recession. If Washington reduced its massive domestic spending on top of the cost of Viet Nam, banks and the Federal Reserve could pursue a gentler course...