Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This issue also has all the regular sections: features and fiction, fashion, beauty, college and careers, travel and departments...
...fictional episodes is by Amanda B. Recondwyth. The critics comment on the authors style of writing is "that this gal is unstoppable." The travel section features a story on the "boundless gravel grandeur of Plushwillow Park (L.I.) "The College and Careers Section offers a spoof on the peace corps, entitled "The Snuggly American," and a story on the Coca Cola junior College for Women...
...could yet establish any clear connection between consumer spending and the market slide, but Blue Monday was having direct consequences in some industries. The luxury trade was hurting most. At Perino's, an expense-account restaurant in Los Angeles, business was off 10%. The nationwide Ask Mr. Foster travel service noted a decline in sales of luxury tours. A Beverly Hills florist moaned: "People are still getting married, having babies and birthdays, but dammit, they're not saying it with flowers." (One jeweler reported a pickup in sales of diamonds, presumably to buyers who had decided that rocks...
...average consumer's disposable income went into retail sales; now only 54% does. Much of the money that the shopkeeper used to get is now being spent on services such as entertainment and travel. Merchants point out that U.S. manufacturers have not devised any really irresistible new product since television. Where the manufacturers have failed, the merchandisers hope to succeed...
Workdays, Ferkauf gets up before 7 a.m. without an alarm clock, prepares his own breakfast, then washes the dishes, using rubber gloves. No matter how far he must travel to inspect one of his stores, whether to Hartford or Harrisburg, he is always home before the children bed down. Only six nights during the past 14 years has Ferkauf spent away from home-and four of them were on a recent business jaunt to Italy...