Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shopkeepers to the Streets. Big wage increases could put new inflationary pressures on an economy that is already severely strained. Because inflation has hindered exports and stoked domestic demand for imports, French trade deficits ran more than $200 million a month in both December and January. Devaluation of the franc would relieve the competitive imbalance by making French goods cheaper on world markets. But devaluation would also be a bitter political setback for Charles de Gaulle, who has staked his prestige on maintaining parity of the franc at 20 U.S. cents. Even so, a currency that foreigners hesitate to handle...
...bird that rolled out of the hangar at Toulouse, one year late for its first test flight, had the ungainly look of a pterodactyl. Its drooping snout reared four stories above the Tarmac; the delta wings that extended from its tubular 191-ft. body seemed barely big enough to support it. But when Test Pilot Andre Turcat gunned the cluster of four jet engines, the Concorde climbed swiftly and steeply. After 27 minutes of subsonic flight, it made an equally flawless, steep-pitched landing. After that, champagne corks popped around Blagnac Airport, and newspapers in Britain and France brought...
...tobacco industry's palmier days, cigarette ads highlighted big-name stars with their cigarettes smoldering and innocent-looking young women who cooed, "Blow some my way." Now the message is moving in the other direction. The tobaccomen are being told by some celebrities: "Shove off." Last week, as the TV networks signed up sponsors for the 1969-70 season, big names and small names alike opened fire on cigarettes. At least two prime-time talents, Doris Day and Lawrence Welk, have sworn off performing on programs sponsored by cigarette manufacturers. So have a number of announcers, actors and commercial...
...migrant-labor camp in California picking cucumbers. Gets canned for fighting. Finds another job as a motel handyman. Falls for his former boss's girl friend, who is trouble. A little bit psycho; likes to make it on tombstones. She leads him on and talks him into a big job: stealing $50,000 worth of the migrants' payroll. Then comes the doublecross...
Although it was made last year, The Big Bounce has the look and tone of films long gone. As the ex-G.I., Ryan O'Neal plays a character patently modeled on John Garfield and uses an acting style that owes much to James Dean. Leigh Taylor-Young appears-frequently without clothing-as the sort of character that James M. Cain used to write about, a homicidal bitch goddess who attracts and destroys men with appetites that do not stop at sex. It is obvious that Warner Bros, hoped to package two agreeable young stars in some tried...