Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...injury-producing smashup. Since the auto was invented, it has killed 1,500,000 Americans, more than the toll in all the nation's wars. The number of fatalities has jumped 29% since 1961. Though the death rate has been cut by two-thirds since the 1930s, to 5.6 per 100 million vehicle miles last year, car travel is still substantially more dangerous than commercial plane travel.* The U.S. Air Force in 1965 lost nearly as many men in car crashes as in air crashes, including Viet Nam combat. In the U.S. last year, 20 million cars were involved...
...Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. led the way to a further tightening of credit by raising the "prime rate"-the interest charged on loans to the bank's biggest and most reliable customers-from 5% to 5½%, highest level since the formula was introduced in the 1930s. Virtually every major bank in the U.S. followed suit, with Washington's tacit approval, further bruising the battered stock market (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...sampling of current smokers shows that as recently as the 1930s, only one-third as many girls as boys started smoking before they were 15; this is significant because disease and death rates, notably for lung cancer, are related to duration of smoking. All three factors -age of starting, inhalation habits and number of cigarettes smoked-said Dr. Hammond, tend to go together: a boy or a girl who starts smoking before age 15 is more likely to become a heavy smoker and deep inhaler...
...watching the likes of Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney come on like double-barreled punks in their double-breasted suits. Even in as recent a film as The Yellow Rolls-Royce, one of the breakup scenes was the appearance of George C. Scott as a 1930s hood, all decked out in a rakish, broad-brimmed white Panama and a Raft-shouldered, double-breasted suit. But laugh softly and take a long second look. For the newest male mode is nothing less than a reissue of Hollywood's dependable old Double...
...elegant zombies. But Hollywood self-satire is also a corridor of mirrors where movie makers are apt to start cringing at their own shadows. In adapting his novel to the screen, Scenarist Gavin Lambert softens the tone of merry irreverence and moves the action back to the comfortably distant 1930s. And Director Robert Mulligan never quite decides whether to play for heartbreaks or black humor. The strain tells on Robert Redford, a deft actor, miscast as Daisy's neurotic, one-night-stand husband who establishes his virility beyond reasonable doubt before being written off unconvincingly as a homosexual...