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...sort. Flung into department store show windows in the gusty middle of March, they hold the promise of summer in every synthetic strand; mannequins plant tanned plastic legs in the cardboard surf, shading their painted eyes against a light bulb of a sun, and even the earliest shopper sniffs about anxiously for a hint of sea smell in the icy air. But by April's end, summer seems only split seconds away; across the U.S. last week, bathing suit sales began to show something of the shape to come. The classic one-piece is here to stay...
...case for a preoccupation with packaging is that the average supermarket shopper spends 27 minutes in a store containing 6,300 items and selects 13.7 of them-half on impulse. (If the shopper is a man, he is even more impulsive.) Gone are the days when a manufacturer chose a box because it was the right size and strength, then counted on the familiarity of his product to sell it. Self-service shopping has forced packages to take on many of the functions of advertising, or of the oldtime grocer's recommendation. With increasing competition for shelf space, each...
...publicity seems to have made many Americans temporarily lose their taste for tuna. A careful shopper could check the lid for the telltale number in a grocery, but it seemed chancier to trust a restaurant or a drugstore counter with a tuna fish sandwich or salad. Food Fair's Howard Miller, the chief grocery buyer for the chain's New Jersey, New York and Connecticut stores, estimated that tuna sales were down 30%. Tuna sales fell in Chicago, Detroit and San Francisco. Van Camp Vice President F. E. Hagelberg saw "no question" but that the scare would eventually...
...Halpern clan is a family of cartoon monsters. Vulgar, egomaniacal Mama (Ruth Gordon) is a compulsive shopper with delusions of solvency. Masochistic Papa (Walter Matthau) is a corner-cutting shoe manufacturer who is going bankrupt in a paroxysm of anguish and gallows humor. Son Bernie (Anthony Holland) is a leaky, self-expressing drip, the kind that leaves a brown stain in a washbowl. At play's end, simple-witted Bernie is out in the once pristine West shilling with a tom-tom for some once noble Indians who are now corrupt enough to con the tourists with their fabricated...
...scheme represents a compromise between Rudolph and Vellucci. Neither of them want parking regulations to show any mercy for the "meter feeder," and Rudolph certainly does not want to antagonize the Cambridge shopper...