Word: tupper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slight burrrp noise when resealed, are suddenly being shown and sold in all sorts of nontraditional places: on the job, in day-care centers, even at tailgate parties. In the past Tupperware was pushed exclusively at living-room gatherings of housewives, a successful marketing strategy devised by Inventor Earl Tupper not long after he dreamed up the product in the 1940s. But as more and more women joined the work force, the party calmed down and eventually had to move. From 1982 through 1985, Tupperware's sales dropped 13.3%, to $762 million. Then last year the company, based in Kissimmee...
...different breed of actors, seldom seen on Rodeo Drive, populates this sumptuous bargain of a book. San Joaquin kit foxes, yellow- bellied marmots, California bighorn sheep and mountain lions patrol the high mountains and hidden valleys; bald eagles and hawks, herons and condors find their lonesome rookeries. Some of Tupper Ansel Blake's photographs--a grove of bishop pines at Point Reyes, the promontories of Santa Cruz Island fading into the mist--evoke Japanese prints. All eloquently plead the book's cause: save the wilderness...
...principals in a celebrated murder case, including the deceased. This unlikely coincidence fell into the lap of Author Anthony Haden-Guest in August 1978, when New York police arrested Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson, a successful horse trainer and all-purpose entrepreneur, for the murder of a man named Jack Tupper. The writer knew and had once interviewed Jacobson and his girlfriend and business partner, Melanie Cain, a fashion model. The victim had often been encountered, by Haden-Guest and others, in trendy restaurants and bars on Manhattan's East Side; he was an affable table hopper...
...apartment buildings, squired a constantly replenished stock of stewardesses and models half his age, protested his innocence to dazzled reporters and blew as much smoke as he could toward the prosecutors. Physical evidence at the scene of the crime was altered. Potential witnesses received threats. Rumors began floating that Tupper had been killed by drug-dealing associates. He had, in fact, once picked up $300,000 for helping a gang of old friends who smuggled hashish and marijuana through Kennedy Airport. None of these distractions before the trial could be traced to Jacobson directly, but those familiar with...
...Social Security compromise indicated that the Administration may have underestimated the common-sense conservatism of the elderly, who gave 60% of their votes to Reagan. Efforts to manipulate the conference, some delegates insisted, ended up hurting the Administration's cause. Said Milton Tupper, 67, a retired Los Angeles businessman: "They could have played a tape from Reagan in which he said, 'I hear there have been some complaints. I have asked the secretary to let you vote on each resolution.' He would have had a chorus of yeses." But the elderly should be flattered by the White...