Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stamps in booklets? This 'Mrs. America" is not attracted by inane supermarket games. I want my winnings in ower food prices. The retail operators do not pay for these games-I do, in the form of higher prices for food. And why should I paste stamps for an item at list price in the stamp catalogues when it is available at two-thirds of the list price at a discount or department store? Why cannot the stores give the shopper the choice of either stamps or a discount on her purchases? Or would this be proving the point...
...other side of the Channel, Prime Minister Wilson sent Minister of State for Foreign Affairs George Thomson out on the European circuit to take soundings. The reports were encouraging. Last month Wilson summoned his Cabinet to a weekend re treat at Chequers, where the Common Market was the prime item on the agenda; the ministries in Whitehall have been busily grinding out European position papers ever since...
...housewives' assault on the high cost of food, one item at the check-out counter has become a highly visible target: trading stamps. Trouble for the $1-billion-a-year industry is coming from all directions...
...tapped 80 collectors and museums around the world, assembled 83 of Manet's oils, rounded out the exhibit with many more sketches, lithographs, pastels and etchings (see color pages). Although the catalogue, by Anne Coffin Hanson, art history professor at Bryn Mawr, is a collector's item for art scholars, the chronological exhibition itself will be seen again only at the Art Institute of Chicago...
Little is unknown about the private life of the most famous public man of modern times. It may be wondered how even his son could add much to the animated image of the great man. Yet Randolph's biography succeeds. It is not just another item in the hefty shelf of Churchill memorabilia, and it is more than a son's pious exercise. Randolph, 55, is able to suppress his own rather gaudy personality, intrudes into the narrative only once or twice, and then only with the purpose of contrasting the generous treatment he received at the hands...