Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spirit world is fairly crackling with activity these days, and mostly for fun. The sale of crystal balls, especially the large $25 size, has risen roundly in Los Angeles. Manhattan Importer Edward Weiss has completely sold out his stock of Viennese fortunetelling Tarot cards. Across the nation, the sale of Ouija boards has tripled in the past year, even the Harvard University Co-op sells out whenever it stocks them. Zodiac sign guessing has become part of the social chitchat, and fashion magazines, such as Harper's Bazaar and Town & Country, have yielded to the fad, started regular monthly...
...until approved by them." Another said that "the book may not be published before Nov. 22, 1968," unless the family agreed. A third ruled that "no motion picture or TV adaptation shall ever be made based on the book," and gave the Kennedys the right of approval over sale of other rights-including magazine serialization...
...working on even subtler devices that will use microscopically small integrated circuits and transmit sound on light beams. "The beauty of this business," says Jamil, "is that if you can imagine a device, it can probably be built." As if to prove his point last week, he put on sale a "Dick Tracy" wristwatch transmitter that can keep a private eye or a government agent in contact with an accomplice 200 ft. away. The transmitter is so sensitive that it even broadcasts the ticks of a built-in watch that actually tells time...
Despite these cumbersome methods and precarious economies, this is an era of unprecedented affluence for writers. A sale of 5,000 hard-cover copies at $5.95 will net the author only $2,975, at the royalty rate of 10% ; the percentage rises with book sales. This is not a great deal for a year or two of work. But paperback income-of which the author's share is 50% or more-can often amount to $20,000 even for a modest seller. And with successful books and name authors, five and six figures are common. Author James Jones...
...investments in noncyclical and service businesses. Among them: oil and gas companies, utilities, banks, personal-loan companies, food chains and some other retailers. Massachusetts Investors Trust, whose assets in 1966's first nine months declined 15%, to $1.9 billion, has bought some food companies, electrical companies and airlines. Sales by the funds lately have caused sharp drops in such stocks as Xerox, General Motors, Fairchiki Camera and Montgomery Ward, which early last week fell briefly to a 23-year low, mostly because of a 344,900-share sale by funds...