Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such developments have been a big factor in keeping once slow-moving Magnavox running with the leaders of the pack these days, particularly in the stereophonic phonograph field, where it makes 30% of all sales. Yet, unlike other companies with new products whose research and marketing costs eat up most of the gains from increased sales, Magnavox keeps its profits up too. This year Magnavox expects to increase its profits by 35% to $3.75 a share on a 20% increase in sales...
...Container Corp.'s longtime President Walter Paepcke last year, Schoenhofen has been groomed for the top spot, will most likely take over as chief executive officer within the next year if Dixon follows company precedent and retires at 65. Primarily responsible for the development of the six-pack of beer, he was appointed senior vice president...
...three-block stretch of the Via Veneto, cascading from the Aurelian Wall to the U.S. embassy, is his favorite hunting ground. Here, in the glittering array of hotels, smart shops and open-air cafes, throng Kroscenko's picturesque prey. He is a paparazzo* one of a ravenous wolf pack of freelance photographers who stalk big names for a living and fire with flash guns at point-blank range...
...Wolf Pack. For those who came in late-a great many people educated at colleges with elective curriculums-The Odyssey is the story of the long voyage home from the Trojan Wars of Odysseus, lord of Ithaca, to be reunited with his wife Penelope and son Telemachus. On the way, he and his men suffered such ordeals as imprisonment by brutish cannibal giants, shipwreck, seduction, famine and feast. Meanwhile, back at the palace, a half-hundred soft civilians squatted on the absent lord's domain, eating and drinking their heads off, seducing the maidservants, insulting the stripling heir...
...whispers in privacy each day before the shaving mirror and the dressing table. Not merely the black statistics of murder, suicide, alcoholism and divorce betray anxiety (or that special form of anxiety which is guilt), but almost any innocent, everyday act: the limp or overhearty handshake, the second pack of cigarettes or the third martini, the forgotten appointment, the stammer in midsentence, the wasted hour before the TV set, the spanked child, the new car unpaid...