Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Madrid, censors have been reading entire newspapers-even all the ads) before presses roll. Instead, ten copies of each newspaper and magazine must be deposited with the Information Ministry one half-hour before it goes on sale. Though the ministry can still seize the total press run, it must take the case to the courts promptly...
...City scoundrels as the Penguin and the Mad Hatter. Teen-agers and the college crowd still consider it sophisticated to snigger at Batman's wildly exaggerated plots and cliché-cluttered dialogue. As a result of the show's high ratings, merchants are anticipating a $50 million sale this year of Batman toys, clothes and other accessories...
...Batboom is V-RROOMing onto the retail stage just in the nick of time; after a $40 million splurge, the sale of James Bond 007 products is tailing off. Gimbels of Philadelphia, the first store to carry Batman T shirts, sold out its shipment of 360 in a day, ordered 2,400 more. Sales of all kinds of Batman merchandise would be still bigger except that manufacturers mistimed the impact, have fallen as far as six weeks behind in deliveries. "I've seen maybe 50 items in hand samples," complains Charles Lucas, Chicago-based buyer for 495 Walgreen drugstores...
...seizure symbolized FDA determination to start acting under powers granted it by Congress in 1962 to prevent the sale of drugs for which overblown advertising claims have been made. In last week's test case, the victim was the Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., maker of some of the best-known products on the market (Listerine, Bromo-Seltzer, Dentyne, Smith Bros. cough drops...
Worst Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: to Harlan Ellison, Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene for dunking Richard Sale's crimson novel about the Hollywood prize scramble into a vatful of whitewash. The book described a rat race in which the victors were merely the best of breed. The movie describes a demiparadise besmirched by Stephen Boyd as a vicious nominee ("That rot inside" is his tragic flaw) who forgets that truth and beauty are the Only Real Rewards...