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...owns the Olive Tree, a clothing and gift store in Rockford, Ill. "I find people coming through here and looking and saying 'Just browsing, thank you,' " she says. "It used to be that at this time of year they would at least try things on and put things on layaway to pick up as Christmas presents. But now everybody's apprehensive about turning loose their dollars." She estimates that her sales last week fell by 25% to 30%. "If it's a soft Christmas, I'm in trouble...
...about a one million dollar gift-certificate to McDonalds and a trip for two to Hollywood? No? Well, how about a sort of layaway plan--say, 10 thou a year for the next hundred years at four and a quarter percent interest...I'll even throw in my new Juice Newton album...
...kiddies the culmination of the Yuletide season is the hysteria of opening presents during the early dawn of the 25th of December. For the parents the culmination of Christmas is early January when all those convenient layaway bills come due. The only vestige of spirit that seems to pervade Christmas these days is the joy of paying off the last charge account bill or seeing a toy actually last in one piece from one Christmas to the next...
...this tremendous disdain for my profession and this huge arrogance." She airily admits that she agreed to a role in that $10 million bomb, The Adventurers, "purely for money." She adds: "Selling out wasn't as hard as I thought it would be." Anyway, making movies "is a layaway plan for my forties, a means of financing my twilight years...
...more than for whites (it is easier to get loans for prospering Negroes in the Deep South than it is in Northern states). But mortgage companies are beginning to realize that steadily employed Negroes are a good risk. Chicago's Park Terrace even has a layaway system that allows buyers to sign up for homes and pay out the down payments in monthly installments. "We went into it for a profit," says Dan Kroll, builder of Long Island's Dunbar Estates, "but frankly we are enjoying the experience because we can see and feel the appreciation...