Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...followed her Korean mother to a ramshackle bar and discovered that her mother was for sale to U.S. servicemen. On the way home, alone, the little girl had an even more traumatic experience: a man lured her into an alley and assaulted her. At eight, she learned why classmates jeered "half-caste!" at her: her father had been a white G.I. At 16, she was a full-fledged prostitute working among American soldiers who liked her slim Occidental legs and ample breasts...
...Angeles invites customers to pick up one of two lapel buttons as they enter: a "Browse 'n' poke" one that will warn salespeople away or a "Find 'n' flee" one that will get its bearer immediate service. To get maximum effect from a sale, Detroit's Martin Alpert & Son jewelry store instituted midnight to 3 a.m. hours to accommodate night-shift workers. For favored customers, I. Magnin of San Francisco will dispatch a salesperson and a fitter anywhere in the U.S. to show and fit clothes. The store picks up all expenses but sometimes sells...
...criticisms of State would be galling if Schlesinger were, as has been suggested, without critical words about anyone else. He's not. Schlesinger's Lyndon Johnson is unhappy at his treatment by Kennedy aides, and opposed to administration tactics on Vietnam, the civil rights bill, and the wheat sale to Russia. "He seemed to have faded astonishingly into the background and appeared almost a spectral presence at meetings in the Cabinet Room." His Chester Bowles "dissipated his authority by diffusing his energy." His Nehru is a tired, tedious old man. There are also a surprising number of critical passages about...
...building will cost slightly more than $6 million--$2 million from the federal government, a little more than $3 million from the fund raising campaign, and the $900,000 from the sale of Robinson...
...previous Canton fairs, there was an emphasis on light industrial goods: bicycles, radios, toys. The Chinese also showed off such major capital items as locomotives, turbine generators and transformers, but they were not for sale. Reason: they are too desperately needed at home to further domestic production, were included in the show strictly for ballyhoo. To some visitors, the poor state of the fair seemed evidence that Red Chinese industry is reflecting the strains of Peking's backing of Hanoi in the Vietnamese...