Word: blues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon, the astronauts pointed Apollo back toward earth and aimed a 16-mm. Maurer movie camera at the third-stage S-4B rocket, which had just been separated from the spacecraft. The resulting pictures show the receding rocket gleaming in the sunlight against a black sky as the blue, cloud-mottled earth hovers below. (Minutes earlier, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory scientists atop a mountain in the Hawaiian Islands had used a Baker-Nunn telescopic camera to shoot a spectacular picture of the S-4B, about 120 miles high, blasting Apollo out of earth orbit toward the moon...
Glittering in red, gold and mother-of-pearl, Lucille answers in a wordless, keening obbligato. King rides the beat with his whole body, nudging it with his knee, slashing across it with his voice. Lucille skitters in and around it, then swoops up to hover on long, suspended blue notes that make King grimace with pleasure. King is all surging masculine power. Lucille is all sinuous womanly grace. If listeners are more moved by her than by him, King does not mind. Lucille is "the one girl I can depend on"-his electric guitar...
...Beckstrom, 33, highly decorated U.S. Air Force pilot (20 medals of valor, including the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross), who survived 202 combat missions in Viet Nam without serious injury; in the crash of his RF-101 Voodoo reconnaissance jet while on a training flight; near Blue Ridge...
Speculation and Shift. Altogether, 1968 was a fairly disappointing year for blue-chip industrial shares. Propelled by political as well as economic events, the Dow-Jones average bounced erratically, but gained only 4.3% for the year. Broader-based indicators of Big Board securities rose about twice as much. The New York Exchange index of all 1,249 listed common stocks climbed 9.4% and Standard & Poor's index of 500 issues rose 7.7%. On the American Stock Exchange, a haven for low-priced and often volatile issues, prices soared an average...
...average price-earnings ratio of American Exchange stocks has jumped from 10-1 to 26-1. By contrast, the Dow-Jones industrial average finished 1968 at a level only 16.7 times the average per-share earnings of its stocks, down from 17.2 a year earlier. The decline suggests that blue chips are anything but overpriced...