Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warehouses and stockrooms are bulging with some 1,300,000 color TV sets that manufacturers and dealers thought would be sold by now. Though sales are 8% ahead of last year, TV makers-excited by two years of bonanza-were caught with their hopes up. Last year supply could hardly catch up with demand: Sales had bounded from 2,700,000 sets in 1965 to 4,700,000 sets worth close to $2.5 billion. The manufacturers counted on pushing sales over the 7,000,000 mark in 1967. Now, estimates have been trimmed by 1,000,000 sets...
...some boys, the new rule smacked of dirty pool, while others have made the best of the matter, have taken up the caps. For most parents, however, the regulation has provided an unexpected bonanza. "It's a blessing," says one happy suburban Washington mother. "My boy tried out a cap and then decided to cut his hair...
Like shooting bottles off a barnyard fence, the gunslingers on NBC's top-rated Bonanza have for several seasons systematically picked off every show offered in the opposing time slots. Five months ago, CBS rushed in a pair of suburban slickers, and to the industry's surprise, they knocked Bonanza out of the No. 1 slot and made the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour the most popular new TV show of the season...
...that in August they will take their nightclub act to Las Vegas for the superstar fee of $35,000 a week. As Jack Paar once told them, "I don't know what it is you do, but nobody's going to steal it." The producers of Bonanza are at least going to try. This fall they are going to introduce a new youthful character into the show in an attempt to counteract the "freshness and vitality" of the brothers Smothers...
...fine sherry (he preferred champagne) and ordered 5,000 bottles from the royal cellar put up for auction. Reviving a pleasant pre-World War II custom, London's leading auction houses have recently added vintage wine to their stock in trade. It has turned out to be a bonanza. Before the year is out, Sotheby's and Christie's expect to move more than $1,000,000 in vintage wine, and prices for rare 100-and 200-year-old wines are breaking all known records...