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...Books in Print, an annual publisher's guide. Searching the shelves of other major bookstores in the Square--Harvard Book Store on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Plympton St., Paperback Booksmith on Brattle St., WordsWorth on the corner of Brattle and Mt. Auburn, and the WordsWorth 2 discount outlet down Mass. Ave. toward Central Square--we found that, in almost all cases, the Coop is the only supplier of textbooks in the area...
Many customers are in fact taking an economical approach. According to Phone City, the largest non-Bell retail outlet in Manhattan, the bestselling phone is a $32.95 replica by ITT of the standard Bell rotary unit. But the temptation is to upgrade. The next most popular phone is Bell's Trimline ($72), the familiar model with pushbuttons in the handle, and similar versions by other manufacturers. At some American Bell stores, buyers are picking up phones with flair, like the suave, curved Genie ($99) and the French-inspired Celebrity ($159). The fastest-growing sales are being...
...dollars or so per line, they are the natural outlet of the discreet, the sincere and the sensitive, all seeking kindred spirits for meaningful relationships. Classified love ads, once relegated primarily to nonmainstream papers like New York City's Village Voice and the sex magazines, are now blossoming almost everywhere. In the ad columns of at least 100 magazines and newspapers, even in dailies like the Chicago Tribune, armies of hopeful DWMs and SWFS seek mergers as POSSLQs (translation: divorced white males and single white females wish to unite as persons of the opposite sex sharing living quarters...
Today millions of pilgrims flock to Freeport to visit L.L. Bean's one and only retail outlet. To the catalogue faithful it is a shrine to a Yankee mystique woven from images of integrity, good value and handcrafted quality. Bean's merchandise is not necessarily expensive ($18 for its best button-down striped Oxford-cloth shirts), and it is not elegant. Over the years a kind of reverse chic has attached itself to its sturdy Yankee clothes and shoes: its $40 woodsman's pants, "all wool and a yard wide," say, or the $73 sheepskin-lined boots...
...Schlemmer). Its secret: the unit is the "only machine that filters out harmful ultra violet B and C rays," prevents burning, peeling and damaged skin. Protective reading goggles are provided, along with special gloves that measure skin response to exposure. Just plug into any 110 V-l 115 V outlet. The tan can be shown off at dinner, served on an 800-Ib. table ($29,920, from Colbert's in Amarillo, Texas). Handmade of Lalique crystal, its base is in the shape of a giant flowering cactus. At its core is a central prism which, according to the blurb...