Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that did not deter Kramer Designs of Royal Oak, Mich., from producing a pop copy with twin twirling plastic disks in psychedelic hues. When the string is pulled taut, the disks whirl apart, then clop together in mid-spin, sounding like a shark with loose plates chewing on an oyster. Op-Yop is its name. At $1 each, Kramer has sold 1,000,000 of them to date, confidently expects to sell another million by Christmas...
...cubist styles of all kinds are grouped in another. Dissimilarities are exploited as well. For example in the juxtaposition of Nicholaes de Stael's violent, angular Reclining Blue Nude on a Red Background and Jean Fautrier's The Gentle Woman, which is cool, liquid, and soft as an oyster...
...company," says Ewing Marion Kauffman, 51, founder, president and principal stockholder of Kansas City-based Marion Laboratories, Inc. "It is our right to be uncommon if we can." Uncommon is hardly the word for Kauffman's pharmaceutical firm, which was founded on poker winnings, grew by selling ground oyster shells, and has made wealthy people out of typists and maintenance men who bought stock for around 66? a share when the company was young. They have since seen their shares increase...
Kauffman's oyster shells, compounded into a product called Os-Cal and recommended for pregnant women with circulatory problems, have been joined by 20 other ethical drugs. For the 15-year-old company, sales last year came to $10,400,000 and Marion Laboratories was the 41st largest among some 900 U.S. drug companies. What really pleases Kauffman, however, is that his company ranked first in terms of its increase in sales and earnings and its return (44.2%) on stockholder's equity. Beyond that, Marion's net profit of 18.1% was nearly double the average...
Flop Society. Announcing her candidacy for the congressional seat vacated last June by the death of Representative J. Arthur Younger, Shirley -whose second husband owns an experimental and commercial oyster farm-told a news conference: "Our country is in deep trouble. The Great Society has become a Great Flop." Although she dodged specific questions with her famous dimpled smile, she did offer some strong general opinions on two inescapable issues. "It is not progress for the largest, strongest military power in the world to be mired down in an apparently endless war with one of the smallest and weakest countries...