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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Rev. Robert H. Jonte was a newly ordained Methodist minister in a small Texas town 19 years ago, he got a 2?-a-gal. discount on gasoline from his service station, the wholesale price when he bought household appliances, and an extra item or two free on his food order, courtesy of the local grocer. Jonte is still a minister in a small Texas town, but now he pays full price for nearly everything he buys. "The clergyman's discount," he says, "is completely gone...
...kitchen table as when it is put on exhibition in a jeweler's window or bartered for bread and butter. To what barbarian plane are we descending when we demand that it serve only the economy?" The educated housewife "will be able to judge a newspaper item more sensibly, understand a politician's speech more sagely, talk over her husband's business problems more helpfully, and entertain her children more amusingly if her brain is tuned and humming with knowledge...
...amateur handwriting analyst, I thought that Jackie Kennedy's letter was more interesting for revealing her personality than as a collector's item [May 28]. The tall rounded capitals show her artistic ability, and the regularity in the size of her letters and the straightness of her lines indicate strong will and ability to stick to any course she chooses. She enjoys solitude, as the slight backward slant of her handwriting shows, although her large script reveals that she doesn't mind being the center of attention. She is quite frugal-notice that there is hardly...
Unclosed Eyes. Instead, Nasser reminded his listeners of the disastrous Arab summit meeting (TIME, June 4), which failed to reach agreement on a single agenda item. "We must face facts today and not close our eyes," Nasser declared. "Today each Arab state is afraid of the others. We are beset by suspicions, contradictions and distrust." This was confession enough, but the bombshell was still to come. Since the Arab states were not strong enough militarily to defend their planned diversion of the headwaters of the Jordan River, declared Nasser, "then I say: let us postpone the diversion. We must provide...
...last year accounted for 30% of sales; moreover, it has opened 405 desks in Penney stores to take catalogue orders directly from shoppers or by telephone, and is adding 50 more to increase the $630 million business written up last year from its glossy 1,098-page, 65,000-item catalogue. Penney is about to build, in Bay Shore, L.I., its largest "new-generation" store, which will have three floors of merchandise, a restaurant, a beauty salon, and a 20-bay auto center that will dispense Penney gasoline and the company's Foremost* tires. Even the soft goods have...