Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brisk Turnover. Among many cost-cutting techniques, Cantor has installed a centralized-buying operation, in which cash registers at key discount stores keep itemized sales records on tape for processing by a Manhattan computer. When stocks run low on a particular item, the computer automatically reorders it from the manufacturer. Store personnel can thus be freed from time-consuming inventory taking, and shelves are kept supplied for a brisk, six-times-yearly stock turnover, compared with three times for department stores...
This newly updated compilation of titles and statistics by Alice Payne Hackett, an editor of the trade magazine Publisher's Weekly, gives a highly useful perspective on the long-range trends beyond the weekly ups and downs, and also includes such items as dictionaries and cookbooks, which the weekly compilations omit. The volume shows how the paperback and population explosions have altered the bestseller concept. A really warm item in 1904 was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, which so far has sold 1.4 million copies, nearly all of them in hard cover (it is still in print). Forever Amber...
...this week's color-picture story about submersibles (see SCIENCE), the TIME team followed trails that led through Louisiana swamps, experimental labs, shipyards and under the surface of two oceans and the Gulf of Mexico. Among the special equipment they used, the most important item was an underwater camera designed by Marine Explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau, now made by Nikon and sold under the name Nikonos. It is the first camera sealed to function under water without special waterproof housing...
...Loves, Thirty Minutes with the Hungarian Railway Philharmonic, and a half-hour newscast, with headlines read by a tight-lipped blonde. As with the rest of East European television, Hungary's news presentation carries virtually no film footage, nor even voice reports from foreign correspondents. The lead item usually updates what the satellite networks call America's "dirty aggressive war against the brave, peace-loving Vietnamese." And often there will be a swipe at "the revanchist Kiesinger-Strauss government in Bonn...
Cleverly camouflaged by Vincent Price's remarkable singing voice (which Who's Who sees fit to label "baritone"), the score to Married Alive is a tolerable item. But Jule Styne and E. Y. Harburg, who wrote it, should be capable of better. Harburg's lyrics pale beside Jamaica; for the creator of Finian's Rainbow, they are pure embarrassment. Styne's music is enough to make one suspicious of the authorship of Gypsy and Funny Girl...