Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insane jealousy. Once he was famous, Puccini had a string of affairs with his more shapely Mimis, Musettas and Butterflys ("I am guilty," he wrote, "but it is my destiny that I must be guilty"), and Elvira was driven to following him, dressed as a man. As a last resort, she slipped camphor in her husband's pocket on the theory that it had a debilitating effect and would diminish his ardor. It didn't. Finally, when he was 50, Elvira unjustly accused a servant girl of being his mistress, drove her to suicide - and Puccini...
Careful Eye. Tysen is convinced that some of the best buys are in the sunny resort lands of southern Europe. His Spanish subsidiary, formed only last month, is already dickering to develop a three-mile stretch of virgin coastline above Valencia into Europe's fanciest resort. "The world has gone sun crazy," says Tysen-and Previews intends to grab a place...
...scramble for top space leads to all sorts of methods to gain preferential treatment. Some companies resort to toasters, TV sets and other gifts (though rarely straight cash) to get the edge over competing brands. But most companies depend on their traveling sales representatives to wangle more space for their products. It is considered perfectly legitimate to help store managers "arrange" their shelves, even though the "arrangement" often winds up with a competitor's product buried out of sight and reach. Such sharp practices are gradually dying out because companies can work a much better deal with top management...
...Last Resort. Neither the U.S. nor Britain was keen to move in, but it was a last resort that neither Lebanon nor its friends could overlook last week. If Lebanon's pro-West regime were to fall, the whole U.S. position in the Middle East would be jeopardized. Last week Secretary Dulles paid a rare visit to the Pentagon to discuss ways and means of moving U.S. forces into Lebanon if requested. Later he told his press conference that there were "other contingencies" for U.S. action in the Lebanese crisis than through...
Summer fiction is life seen in bikini-scope. It covers little, and that hazily. Phoenix Island is the hot season's first literary scantyweight, and it is fitfully amusing. The scarcely disguised locale is the New York summer resort of Fire Island, but the cast of psychoneurotic summer people and scurvy natives needs to be taken with a pinch of salt water...