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Prosperity on the Cuff...
...fastest-growing new industry, color television, this year will sell 2,300,000 sets-more than one-half on credit. Many an American sends his youngsters to college on a "dollars-for-scholars" loan, is up to his eaves in mortgage payments, buys his clothes on the cuff (65% of department-store purchases are charged), and then gets away from it all on a fly-now-pay-later plan...
...that one day . . . Now Gus and John Young were safely down from their Gemini voyage into space, and in Manhattan for the parades and banquets. Into the Waldorf-Astoria marched Andrea, and ran right up to the dais, where she handed the startled Grissom a pair of square Florentine cuff links and a tie clasp, then burst into tears. No emergency procedures for Gus. He just introduced her as "my Number One fan," gave her his chair and sat on the floor while the mayor spoke. "We made it, Gus and I," sighed Andrea, 16. "We both made...
...major news story in themselves. Gone is much of the easy informality of the early days of his Administration when Johnson met and joshed with reporters, invited them and their families to a picnic on the White House lawn. Though he still calls reporters in for occasional off-the-cuff conferences, Johnson's affair with the press as a whole has temporarily soured. Reporters have begun to reminisce nostalgically about the Eisenhower and Kennedy years when press conferences were regularly scheduled well ahead of time and there were no rude surprises, no unventilated rooms with not enough chairs...
From London to Los Angeles, everything from suits and trenchcoats to cuff links and toiletries is going on sale under the James Bond label of 007-the digits that authorize Bond to kill. In Britain, where the Bond market will reach $14 million this year, promoters have lined up 20 licensed manufacturers for shoes, vodka and golf equipment, are now negotiating with one of London's largest tailors. In Italy, while philosophers ponder the meaning of Bond as the modern hero, the manufacturers are trying to grab licenses for 007 products...