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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the past decade. This year 26 million citizens gathered in solemn or profane conclave and there spent an estimated $15 billion. That is double the amount they spent ten years ago, and twice as much as Americans allot for amusements and spectator sports. There are some 28,000 trade, professional and other voluntary associations in the U.S., and by year's end they will have met nearly 250,000 times. The rage to meet has helped pack the nation's 37,410 hotels and motels to more than 70% of capacity, the highest room-occupancy rate in two decades...
...steady march of consumerism and government regulation, which inspires trade and professional groups to meet more frequently to discuss compliance?or resistance. "Ten or 15 years ago, people considered conventions to be social outlets," says James Low, president of the 6,200-member American Society of Association Executives (which will have its own convention in St. Louis next August). "But with the dawn of Ralph Nader, suddenly everyone was under question. People wanted to know if businessmen were ethical, whether their products were safe. The business world turned in on itself. For the first time businessmen realized they needed their...
...municipally financed and usually little more than a big enclosed space, are popping up across the country like second-story men at a jewelers convention. Some 60 cities have built one of those concrete boxes, and another eleven are on the way. Meantime, hotels that cater to the convention trade are being expanded or else threatened by newer, larger ones. Las Vegas' 2,783-room Hilton, the nation's roomiest, has been expanded twice in the past five years. It will become the nation's second largest hotel if, as planned, the 2,131-room New York Hilton adds...
...cosmetics industry, a gossipy and sometimes backbiting trade, the acquisitions have stirred talk that Bergerac intends to make Revlon another ITT. The president of one competing firm goes so far as to predict that in ten years Revlon will no longer be basically a cosmetics company but a conglomerate. Bergerac laughs off the idea, and his bubbling delight in the cosmetics business does make it seem farfetched. Some rivals and retailers also grumble that Revlon is cheapening its image by toying with the idea of selling in supermarkets. Bergerac replies that it is only testing that approach in Dallas, Denver...
...James Hancock and Hugh Elliott (Harper & Row; 304 pages; $65). The authors have limited their choice of long-legged wading birds to a single family, the Ardeidae, which comprises some 61 species. The Snowy Egret graces the dust jacket, wearing the plumes, or aigrettes, that caused a heedless millinery trade to slaughter it to the brink of extinction in the early 1900s. But, as Emily Dickinson pointed out, hope is a thing with feathers, and today the protected Snowy has become a common sight-as well as a hopeful symbol of conservation in general...