Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first full year. Earlier this year, EEC experts predicted a slowdown of lesser proportions. The German recession, however, proved more durable than anticipated; despite recent frantic efforts to revive business, a fifth of Germany's industrial capacity stands idle. This year, the country's gross national product is expected to drop about...
...daggers). Its life has been disrupted and its British-sponsored federal government destroyed by four years of terrorism and civil war. With the British will depart much of the country's economy. London paid most government expenses. British troops generated 30% of the country's gross national product, the British free port brought tourist dollars into Aden, and the British Petroleum Co. built the Federation's only significant industry-an oil refinery 25 miles from Aden. Even in the unlikely event that the British departure brings peace, it will throw at least 25% of the labor force...
Some of the best of them are the work of Manhattan Director Howard Zieff, 40, a short, hyperactive man with a zany sense of humor and an apparently limitless imagination. He is the leading practitioner of what the trade calls the indirect sell: the product is visible and so is the pitch, but the commercial zings across chiefly because it is entertaining and refuses to take itself seriously. To dramatize Braniff Airways' airfreight division, Zieff shows a man crated and shipped by air, arriving at his destination with not a hair out of place. For Whirlpool household appliances...
...people buy his product? As an exercise in camp? Almost certainly not. They seem charmed and disarmed by his sentimentality, his square hipness. What the McKuen phenomenon proves is that, no matter how sophisticated or cynical the times may seem, there is always a vast market for the banal...
...buildings's new name honors the memory of one of Harvard's particularly gifted and loyal Victorians, a man described by his brother and biographer as "a quarter Bostonian, a quarter Victorian, and one half a product of Essex Country at its best...