Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overriding pressures on the older men, and the irregular development of the younger players bodes ill for LA this year. The Dodger farm system has been guilty of over-production, and the ensuing boom harbors a possible depression. Too much disorganization and surplus of talent will lose ball games...
Decline or Survival? Purists complain that free tuition and redbrick expansion are debasing everything old and dear in English higher learning. "MORE will mean WORSE," wrote Novelist Amis recently. Expansionists reply that even the current boom in higher learning is dangerously smaller than that in any comparable country. Former Economist Editor Sir Geoffrey Crowther recently called Britain's backwardness "a formula for nation al decline," urged lowering degree standards to increase graduates. Most Britons are convinced that national survival depends on the future of the redbrick revolution-even if much British nostalgia still rests upon the ancient spires...
Little Venices. It is the building industry that is doing the most to make Florida boom-and raising the greatest fears of a bust. Even though building was slowed last year by the recession (statewide building was off 20%), communities are still going up at an amazing rate. The biggest, General Development's Port Charlotte on the lower west coast, has mushroomed from vacant land to a city of 7,000 in four years, is planned to hit 750,-ooo. The scramble for waterfront lots is so great that builders are turning parts of the state into little Venices...
With two boats ahead now and the only possibility left of tying Navy by placing second, Marshal threw caution to the winds and tossed on the big blue and white spinnaker. After rapidly catching the Babson boat, he ordered a jibe. Although the boom rode up the mast in the high wind, four of the crew barely held it down
...Americans Are Nuts." Behind the homemade helicopter boom are high-soaring thrills, little risk and low cost. Ready-to-fly commercial helicopters cost upwards of $20,000, but Bensen Aircraft Co. of Raleigh, N.C., has sold "several thousand" do-it-yourself kits, ranging in price up to $6,000, has a file of 100,000 potential customers-most of whom already have paid $2 for drawings and general specifications of its products. Two years ago, convinced that "Americans are nuts about helicopters," Los Angeles Copter Buff Tom Adams quit his job as a sheet metal worker at Douglas Aircraft...