Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Home is the harvest, or soon will be, and there is a buoyancy in the air as autumn comes in with its blazing hues of foliage. Vacation time is past, but ahead are football weekends with all their tangy exuberance. And for many a family, now is the time for the weekend jaunt. Increasingly, the stop en route will be for good eating. Whether steered by word of mouth or by such guides to gastronomy as the Mobil Travel Guide (which this year sold more than 1,000,000 at $1.95 each), discriminating motorists are timing their trips to take...
...Kowloon Station beside the mid-morning train to Canton were hundreds of Chinese waiting to go home. There were teen-age girls in distinctly non-proletarian blouses, old men in bourgeois pin-striped suits, and women whose arms were draped with heavy jackets in anticipation of the chilly Chinese autumn. The refugees-in-reverse were overseas Chinese from Indonesia, some 4,000 of whom have fled back to the mainland in recent months...
...result of all this is that since the autumn of 1963, Miles has raised and spent $1,250,000 on capital improvements. A student union and cafeteria building have been completed, a science building constructed at a cost of $500,000, and one of the school's old structures rehabilitated...
...Detroit's automakers, the new year begins in late summer and early autumn when, after much spying and speculation, new models are introduced. Thus, last week was New Year as the first of the '67s were presented. They came, as always, wrapped in a package of optimism about buyer acceptance and total sales. This year the optimism was more remarkable because of the sales year that the auto companies have just been through...
...Inevitably, the continuing downturn caused some to recall that awful autumn of 1929. There was, in fact, no comparison. The industrial average in '29 stood half as high as it does now-the year's peak was 381.17 -and the market took terrifying tumbles with only about half the volume of trading. On '29's infamous Tuesday, Oct. 29, the day the market crashed, the average plunged by 30.57 points. In that October alone, the industrials lost about as much (20%) as they have all this year. From 1929's high to its low they...