Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book stores handling secondhand books where both the buyer and seller know exactly what per cent of the list price the book is being either bought or sold at. A schedule of our policy is available for our customers at the buy-back counter. Quoting from the schedule dated April 1, 1963 for required and recommended titles, our policy is as follows: Buy Sell Excellent Condition 50% of retail 70% of retail Good Condition 40% of retail 60% of retail Fair Condition 30% of retail 50% of retail...
...Society's textbook buyer, a most competent young man, admits that he came in on the tail end of Mrs. Lessinger's conversation with the clerk at the counter and is very red-faced over the incident. After going back to his desk he refigured the price of the book in question and found he had made a mathematical error and multiplied by 80 per cent rather than 70 per cent. He admits he should have checked his figures while she was still in the store. Shortly after she left the book in question was remarked at its properly scheduled...
Slug for Slap. On some campuses, counter-protesters engaged in debates or separate rallies. In Detroit, the opposition sang The Star-Spangled Banner over and over, all but drowning out the Vietniks. In Chicago and Oakland, Calif., demonstrators were pelted with raw eggs, and cops broke up a few mild scuffles. The leading rank of 10,000 paraders in New York City got doused with red paint. Even pleaders for peace can become aggressive. At New Jersey's Rutgers University, a hotbed of anti-Viet Nam sentiment (see preceding story), a middle-aged woman lightly slapped Biology Senior Alan...
...unwisest course of all. For in deciding to stand in South Viet Nam, the U.S. means just that After all, we've kept 250,000 men in Western Europe for 20 years," observes a general. "We can wait too." The U.S. also means much more. It means to counter the Red revolution with a genuine revolution in health, education, welfare and self-sufficiency for the Vietnamese that the Communists can hardly be expected to understand. The Communists themselves chose South Viet Nam as their test case and springboard to the conquest of all Southeast Asia. There are signs that...
...controversy was touched off two months ago when Thomas Eisenstadt, a member of the Boston School Committee, counter Ohrenberger's plan with a proposal to stop all busing designed to end school overcrowding. Later he revised his motion so as to apply only to new busing. The resolution passed 3-2. It looked as if double sessions was the only alternative for the three overcrowded schools...