Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast bulk of blanket sales is still in the cheap (under $5) rayon blends, which tend to shrink and wear badly. But in the quality field, thermals are the up-and-coming item. This year 7,500,000 thermals will be sold, as compared with 400,000 wools, 5,500,000 electrics and 5,000,000 acrylics. Most blanket-makers now produce thermals ranging in price from $3.99 to $20. They would much rather not. But three years ago a bedspread manufacturer, Morgan-Jones, put the first cotton thermal into U.S. stores. With little advertising except by word of mouth...
...also included the price of bed and breakfast. Barker presented it to his patron, Lord Spencer. In 1915 it passed into the hands of Sir Herbert Cook for $168,000. Last week it was up for auction in London's Christie's auction house, identified simply as Item...
With a plunking background and a beat that makes it sound somehow like a lilting dirge, that bit of drifter's lingo is the hottest item on the current top pop charts. Out less than two months, King of the Road passed the three-quarters of a million sales mark last week, is fourth and soaring on this week's Billboard listing. The lyrics, music and vocal are all by a personable young man named Roger Miller, 29. He is no new Beatle, but he has got what they call something. Raised in Oklahoma on a farm...
...Orleans States-Item, which was criticized along with the Times-Picayune for doing little to calm the city during the 1960 school integration crisis, sent a staff reporter to cover last summer's murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, and urged "reasonable Mississippians to raise their voices in a ground swell of indignation." Recently, the States-Item hired a Negro sports columnist. The Houston Chronicle, which has shifted from anti to pro integration, recently editorialized against a proposed state constitutional amendment to preserve discriminatory housing: "We need no laws aimed at Negroes, for that is what this...
...members refuse to ante up for U.N. peace-keeping operations in the Congo and the Middle East. The U.S., which originally hoped to embarrass the recalcitrants by invoking Article 19,* is now reluctant to force a confrontation for fear it might wreck the entire organization. If any Assembly item came to a vote, the U.S. would feel compelled on principle to invoke Article 19 against Russia, France and the others. Hence the Assembly could not risk a formal vote on anything...