Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sale. Brooklyn Heights is one of the few neighborhoods that retains its distinction; its elegant Victorian houses across the bay from Manhattan have attracted many genteel bohemians. On the other hand, the fading Fort Greene Park area nearby recently lost one of its last distinguished citizens when Poetess Marianne Moore, 78, packed her tricorn hat and cape and, after 36 years in Brooklyn, moved to Manhattan. The swamps and old fishing villages in the further reaches have given way to modern subdivisions that most young couples rising in the world regard as mere way stations on the road to suburbia...
...basketball team allowed Isidore Schmiesing of St. Cloud State College to score 56 points-thereby absorbing its 16th loss of the season. Hockey is the game in Houghton, and the town's devotion is maniacal. When season tickets for the 1,065 seats in Dee Stadium went on sale last November, they sold out in 2½ hours...
...better. First of all, the bill is being introduced from inside the House rather than outside, so that an organized action of legislators will already be committed. The amendment has also been reworded to allow only prescription contraceptives; this change will pacify those who were worried about the indiscriminate sale of contraceptives to adolescents. Perhaps most important, the Religious Liberties Declaration which came out of the Vatican Council last fall urges Catholics not to interfere with freedom of non-Catholics and states that moral decisions should be left to the individual conscience. Catholic Representatives can thus support the bill this...
...into the commercials; where once the pitchman raved supreme, he now adds a light or whimsical touch to ads-in Buster Keaton's Ford-truck plugs, for example, or Bert Lahr's potato-chip commercials and Jack Gilford's Cracker Jack spiels. The comedians soften the sale-and they frequently outshine the programs...
...year than last. With a swiftness that startled even investment men, the money shortage has driven interest rates on some new bond issues to 45-year peaks, prompting investors to sell stocks in order to buy bonds. Last week $40 million of Long Island Lighting Co. bonds went on sale with a 5.13% interest return, one of the highest yields ever placed on a corporate issue of its type. The Federal National Mortgage Association had to pay a record 5.38% to sell $250 million of 14-month debentures. Despite an extraordinarily high 5½% interest, Washington's Export-Import...