Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same, the surest sign that the Monkee gland will function comes not from TV or records but from the promotion department. The inevitable flood of Monkee merchandise, from guitars to comic books and Monkee pants (of which J. C. Penney alone has ordered $670,000 worth), will gross $20 million this year...
Revenue for these domestic programs is not being diverted to defense needs, McNamara contested. Defense expenditures in 1966, including those for Vietnam, were less in relation to Gross National Product than in four of the previous five years...
...DOCTORS by Martin L. Gross. 605 pages. Random House...
...Gross, however, has elected to aim his book at human passions, at all the unfortunate sick who have been kept waiting in the reception room, who fell athwart the doctor's inhumane side -or thought they did-who are all too ready to believe that the surgeon's main purpose in removing an appendix is to collect a $1,500 fee. That side of medicine unfortunately exists. It is the only side revealed in this book...
...Assumptions. It is possible that Gross, a freelance writer whose first book, The Brain Watchers, prompted a congressional inquiry into nosy psychological testing techniques, is genuinely interested in sparking a similar inquiry into the medical profession. It is even conceivable that such a thoughtless, careless and incendiary book as this, produced by a layman whose narrative style is not exactly what the doctor ordered ("Major medical policies do not blanketly cover the patient"), will accomplish a worthy...