Shopping shifts from shopping to buying in modern consumer culture
A columnist notes a shift in retail behavior with less browsing and more direct buying. The piece also touches on topics from imperial Japan sensitivity to postage stamps, a Chester newspaper wedding item, Soviet jam stations, and light editorial quips about workers and public figures.
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Japan
Akihito
West Chester
Daily News
Miss Blank
Kremlin
Europe
Asia
Anda
Ussr
Herr Doktor
Benny Hooper
Kentucky
Floyd Collins
Roving reporter robbed after gas run near Martinsville
Bev Ballard of the Morning News, driving a hitchhiker toward Cheraw, was threatened at gunpoint near Society Hill and forced to continue to North Carolina. The man took $20 and Ballard’s ignition keys after the car stalled near Martinsville.
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Florence
S.C
Bev Ballard
Morning News
Cheraw
Martinsville
Society Hill
Ft. Bragg
N.C
North Carolina
North Caro
Lina
Ballard
Pace Named Chairman of American Council on NATO
Frank Pace Jr. becomes board chairman and president of the American Council on NATO Inc a private nonprofit founded in 1953 to boost interest in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization He succeeds Robert B Anderson who was appointed secretary of the Treasury.
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New York
Frank Pace Jr
General Dynamics Corp
Army
American Council On NATO, Inc
Robert B. Anderson
the Treasury
North Carolina to Name Bill Babcock Highway Director
Governor Hodges favors Bill Babcock of Raleigh for the highway director post and urges the commission to appoint him. Babcock, a traffic engineer linked with State College since 1940, has advised 35 Carolina towns and brings first hand experience with rural road challenges and urban traffic demands.
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Lynn Nisbet
Raleigh
North Carolina
State Highway Department
Hodges
Highway Commission
Willard Farrington Badcock
Babcock
North Carolina Hodges
State College
Carolina
Bill Babcock
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Pace
NATO Council
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Huni
Ecke
Paris
Ole Tld
B. C
Wicker
Eckeula
The
U. B
Roberts
Moskine
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