Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Komsomolskaya Pravda's Ace Reporter V. Chikin was as shocked as any other true atheist by the letters pouring in from outraged readers. They complained that young people were snapping up gold-plated crosses on sale in state-run shops. Crosses! Sniffing a scoop, Chikin went snooping...
...crosses had no meaning. They were merely the latest fad. Fashion, Chikin, fashion-and profit. GUM Buyer Klavdia Mikhailovna picked up the trinkets for 330 each, presumably from a Czech costume-jewelry firm, which has been flooding Eastern Europe with such baubles. Klavdia put them on sale for $3.33, turning a neat 900% profit for the Socialist mother land. In the Soviet Union, where selling Bibles can lead to banishment, Klavdia was just a little too avantgarde. By week's end Chikin could report in a follow-up story that the doublecross to dialectical materialism had been avenged. Klavdia...
...mixture of fact, law and social policy. In Indiana recently, a druggist sold liquor to a teen-age boy who then rendered a child paraplegic as the result of a drunken auto accident. When the child's guardian sued the druggist, he had to establish that the liquor sale was not too remote from the accident to constitute "proximate cause." Fortunately for the plaintiff, the Indiana Supreme Court agreed, choosing not to follow decisions in several other states that rejected such claims...
...decided "it was now or never." He quit U.P.I., moved his wife and three children to the farm, and took a job writing editorials for the Bristol (Va.) Herald-Courier, the nearest daily paper. A few months later, he learned that some stock was for sale in the Washington County News, the county's leading weekly (circ. 4,000), founded in 1948 by the son of Author Sherwood Anderson. Bowman eagerly went deeper into debt to pick up a 23% interest, and last January he took over as editor...
...before publication it provoked a flurry of attention from gun manufacturers, sportsmen's clubs, self-styled patriotic organizations, and the 700,000-member National Rifle Association, all of which are opposing a bill, now in a Senate subcommittee, that would put stiffer federal limits on the import and sale of firearms. Bakal's work seems certain to become one of the most widely debated books of the year. The publisher, hoping that it will stir as much commotion as Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's polemic against insecticides, likes to call it Silent Springfield...