Word: trades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battlefield in Viet Nam and at the peace talks in Paris, the counsel of U.S. intelligence analysts weighs heavily. For it is as true today as it was around 400 B.C., when Sun Tzu wrote China's oldest manual of arms, that those whose trade is to uncover an enemy's secrets "receive their instructions within the tent of the general and are intimate and close to him." Yet when Richard Nixon becomes Commander in Chief, he will need an extraordinary measure of sagacity, wisdom, humanity and justice-not to mention delicacy and subtlety-to discern the truth...
...first off, at a sumptuous banquet on wild boar, pheasant, partridge and turkey. And on to the dialogue. One speaker, lamenting the wanton slaying of alligators, apologized profusely for the belt he was wearing. Alligator, of course. Equally well made was a point about the dangers that the fur trade poses to the world's great cats; on view among the ladies were eight leopard coats, two ocelot coats, a cheetah suit and a tiger jacket with matching handbag. Their hostess, Princess Grace of Monaco, even showed up splendidly attired in a coat made of wild mink with matching...
...powerful 16% of the population and have extracted uniformly lavish price supports. This has encouraged overproduction and bulging surpluses of eggs, pork, wheat, apples and practically all other foods. The cost of underwriting the cornucopia reached $4.5 billion in 1968, and could mount to $10 billion by 1980. As trade unions, consumer groups and other proponents of farm reform point out, that is quite a bite...
Among more blatantly commercial novels, there are a couple of noteworthy categories. One is already known in the trade as Rosemary's Babies, since Ira Levin's bestseller (4,400,000 sales in paperback alone) has clearly inspired others to deal with the devil. Among them: The Mephisto Waltz by Fred Mustard Stewart (a pianist kills and inhabits the body of a long-fingered friend), and Don't Rely on Gemini by Vin Packer (the Corsican brothers in outer space). The last author is pseudonymous, but he has to come from Green...
Sugar Plum Fairy, a is Warhol's first attempt to turn a trade book into a pop artifact. Described as his first novel, it is a package whose surface looks pretty much like any other book-in the same way that one of his Brillo boxes resembles a Brillo box on a grocery shelf. The contents, however, turn out to be an unedited transcript of 24 hours worth of drug-induced schizophrenic chatter tape-recorded by Warhol while following his friends around...