Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REPORTS: THE FARTHEST FRONTIER (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Charles Kuralt reports on the promise and problems involved in the use of the new drugs that twist and untwist minds. Originally scheduled for Jan. 10, "Frontier's time was pre-empted by the President's State of the Union address. In coming weeks, check your educational TV stations...
What really drives the stores to distraction is the customer who tries to return a gift bought from a competitor or at a reduced price in a discount house. Merchandisers tell the tale of one buyer whose pre-Christmas inventory totaled six toasters; the week after New Year's it had swelled to twelve. One New York City housewife has raised the technique to a high art. Each year her husband receives a gift box of Fabergé perfumes from the manufacturer. The lady returns it, bottle by bottle, to all the stores where she has charge accounts, thus...
...from my admirers"), she cut a figure of elegance and sauciness on her cross-country tours in a private Pullman. The press trailed her everywhere, reported her forays into the Monte Carlo casinos, her nude swims in the Mediterranean, her dietetic secrets (one meal a day, fortified with a pre-bed glass of milk mixed with ten drops of iodine). Roads, perfumes, sundaes were named after her, and if a suitor was lacking, she was not above dredging up a photograph of some deceased Hindu prince and releasing it to the press as her latest marital prospect...
Chamberlain showed up seven days late at the 76ers' pre-season training camp last fall. Hannum fined him $1,050 ($150 a day) and invited Chamberlain into a private room for a little nose-to-chin-whiskers chat. Announced Chamberlain: "Hannum is a helluva coach. I don't always agree with what he says...
Present appropriations of about $208 million will enable Boeing and G.E. to proceed for several months of necessary pre-tooling, plant preparation and design refinement. Beyond that, the U.S. supersonic, which is already three years behind the British-French Concorde, will be seriously delayed if funds are not forthcoming. "It is highly important," says Boeing President William M. Allen, "that we move forward as rapidly as is consistent with the production of a sound, viable airplane...