Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thousands of French astrologers last week were telling tens of thousands of their anxious clients to watch their step in 1965. This is the traditional time for the credulous to pay from $10 to $100 for private consultations, and the zodiacal word was ominous: This year's conjunction of...
People stepped up their spending for better living (furniture sales were up 11%), for leisure (sporting goods up 5%) and culture (books up 8%). Close under the retailer's eye, dear to his heart and vital to his wallet was the fact that 75% of all department-store purchases...
Nowhere in the world compares to Harvard Square for sheer arrogance density. Tens, hundreds, countless young men walk about Cambridge contentedly bearing the secret of their own grandeur. Perhaps their judgment is accurate, perhaps a vast ironic joke undermines the very core of existence of the University--but for some...
Ehrenburg is at his best when he is simply reporting what he saw. Assigned by Izvestia to cover the Spanish Civil War, he is sharp, biting, witty. He describes how the Anarchists, numbering in the tens of thousands, caused havoc in Republican ranks. Not believing in law, order or discipline...
Xerox, which puts 10% of its sales into research, also has some innovations on the way. Perhaps pushed by the competition, it has just demonstrated a highspeed, high-volume machine that will not be marketed until next year-but will produce up to 2,400 copies an hour. The company...