Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME agrees with Readers Naymola and their satisfied patrons that a man's own friendly neighborhood bar is never a dive...
Good negotiators know from experience that each small cluster of homes has one householder who is regarded as the pacesetter of the neighborhood. Negotiator's rule of thumb: find the key man, sign him and his neighbors will follow suit. But property owners have their code too. Few ever admit to satisfaction with the appraisal; all complain, often with justification, that intangibles are involved that the state never takes into consideration...
...homemade, and she wears no lipstick or jewelry, even on her fund-raising expeditions into Roman society. But some of the shocked villagers of Borgata Ottavia imaginatively endow her with mink coats and painted fingernails. "What will she make of those girls?" asked one indignant woman of the neighborhood last week. "Not good mammas, I'm sure." Nodded another: "The girls will all end up with crickets in their heads -thanks to the rich American woman...
...many oldtime retailers, the day of the discount spells doom for the small neighborhood businessman, who has neither the capital nor the market for a high-volume, low-price operation. But while it is rough on retailers, it is fine for the U.S. consumer, who at long last has learned to call the tune. In the long run, it may also prove just the right tonic for U.S. businessmen, who will be forced to pare their soaring distribution costs-which are often equal to production costs-down to realistic levels...
Inspiration began with a meeting in Winthrop House at 9:30 a.m. Here Program Chairman Alexander M. White '25, disclosed that the present recession had set the Program back "in the neighborhood of $5 million...