Word: p
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thumb P. T. Barnum
Even at the eight-item counter, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company's 4,730 stores will be hard pressed to match President Byron Jay's own express checkout. Three weeks ago, only 13 months before reaching A. & P.'s mandatory retirement age of 65, Jay ended a 41-year, up-from-clerk career with the nation's biggest food chain by 1) chucking the $151,000-a-year job he had held since 1964 and 2) packing himself off to deep seclusion...
...Thomas P. F. Hoving, D.H., director of the Metropolitan Museum...
...HOUR OF LAST THINGS by George P. Elliott. 292 pages. Harper...
...George P. Elliott is no square, but there is something sturdily old-fashioned about him all the same. The fictional fashions of the day are for chaos, apocalypse and sexual grotesqueries, splattered onto the page in a sort of verbal-action painting. Yet here is Elliott with 13 quiet, thoughtful stories, precisely fitted with conventional plot and narrative, and-at their best-fairly humming with moral earnestness. As for eroticism, Elliott is still getting mileage out of the kiss...