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...means a date crowd. It included mostly college girls spending a shop-and-study day in Cambridge and one rather self-conscious graduate student sitting alone. The noon lunch hour seems to fill the room not with professors but with their secretaries or just plain Christmas shoppers. You can always tell how badly a restaurant wants the shopper-secretary clientele by the care the chef takes with the salad bowl. As You Like It offers
...last week, Bloomingdale's put the bed on display. Initial reactions were much the same as at Dayton's, a Minneapolis department store; small children appeared from nowhere to bounce on the mattress, adults giggled about the need for Dramamine as they began their tests, and one shopper floated off to sleep while trying it out. Lying on the bed is an uncommonly comfortable experience. Once the initial pitching and rolling dies down, the user feels that he is being held gently in a huge warm hand...
Meanwhile, consumer prices continue to rise fast; they went up at an annual rate of 6% in February, a decrease from the seasonally adjusted January rate of 7.2% but one so small as to make little difference to the shopper. The Administration is trying to make up its collective mind about which is the greater peril: inflation or recession. Last week, reports Lawrence Malkin, TIME'S Washington economic correspondent, the President began an effort to defuse the political dangers by giving the appearance of combatting recession without significantly changing economic policy. In a press conference, Nixon denied that...
...settings of gold-plated flatware for $39.95 (original price: $110), a man's fake suede car coat for $6 (originally $25), four pairs of lined, imported gloves at $5 each (originally $16), and a framed painting of a Spanish warrior for $14.95 (once close to $50). "A good shopper needs only one to two hours to case the place," says Mrs. Conroy. "Longer than that and you begin to get headaches...
FOOD. The Department of Labor food-price index jumped 5% from January to October. In Pittsburgh, the price of eggs almost doubled overnight from 43? to 83? per dozen. The price of pork chops in Boston increased from 99? to $1.39. One shopper in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Mrs. Richard Davis, protested: "This can of soup had four prices on it when I bought it." The final price was 11? more than the first. The nickel Hershey bar vanished, and practically nobody could find a 10? cup of coffee...