Word: packards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wearing his own grave expression, Social Critic Vance Packard (The Hidden Persuaders, The Status Seekers, The Waste Makers) reports on the sexual revolution in his new book, The Sexual Wilderness (McKay...
Meanwhile, the company plans to keep up a marketing push that, for all of Mercedes' staid image, has become truly muscular. Deciding that his company ought to do better in the "world's toughest market," Mercedes' Zahn ended a U.S. marketing deal with now-defunct Studebaker-Packard in 1965, built up an independent network of 260 dealers. By carefully watching car-buying tastes in the U.S.-where 85% want automatic transmission (v. only 40% in Germany) and 65% ask for air conditioning (v. less than 1%), Mercedes has increased its American sales by 25% this year...
...business careers, singlehood has its liabilities. As Vance Packard reports in The Pyramid Climbers: "In general the bachelor is viewed with circumspection, especially if he is not well known to the people appraising him." If he is still in his 20s, the personnel manager worries whether he is too busy with his love life to devote full attention to his job. "The worst status of all is that of a bachelor beyond the age of 36. The investigators wonder why he isn't married. Is it because he isn't virile? Is he old-maidish...
...salaries and the cost of the new gymnasium (also computed as part of the construction industry), is figured in. But then there is the $126.7 billion of Government spending, the $189 billion service industry, the $21 billion annual economic loss through crime, and the $25 billion that Vance Packard says is spent on disposable packages each year. The grand total has soon soared past the gross national product...
...spent the previous week at an interfaith Colloquium on evangelism at Notre Dame. Others were veterans of the series of theological dialogues carried on by the Roman Catholic hierarchy with various U.S. Protestant churches. Still others had attended talks at the World Center for Liturgical Studies in Florida, the Packard Manse retreat house in Massachusetts, the Jesuits' John LaFarge Institute in Manhattan, or countless other U.S. interfaith gathering places...