Word: boom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Willie Loco Alexander and the Boom Boom Band, Baby's Arm, The Thrills. The Nerous Eaters, Human Sexual Response. The Jaguars, The One, The Cars, Tracks, The Molls, Ricky and the Invaders...
Just how guided the tour would be became clear soon after the visitors arrived in Addis Ababa. "The boom came down hard on the first day," reported TIME'S David Wood. A slight, wiry official showed up at the Ghion Hotel and told the reporters: "We will insist that you stay at this hotel and that you stick to the official program." He was not kidding. His instructions were enforced by pistol-toting guards stationed outside the hotel. Anyone trying to make the normal round of journalistic contacts with diplomats and other sources-or even...
...Rockefeller has some advantages that may eventually come to his rescue. At the top of the list is a thriving state economy because of the coal boom. Personal income in West Virginia is rising at the eighth fastest rate in the nation. From 1970 to 1977 it doubled, increasing to $6,068 per capita. The Governor also has an ability to keep cool. He remains, to a large extent, the unassuming, engaging antipoverty worker who first came to West Virginia 14 years ago, a carpetbagger who chose to stay. His wife Sharon, 33, the daughter of Illinois Senator Charles Percy...
...result, the antiques market is at present enjoying an unprecedented boom. The demand for a piece of the past was such that the auction houses hammered down one record after another in 1977: rare books ($360,000 for John James Audubon's Birds of America), Sèvres porcelain ($102,600 for Marie Antoinette's delicately painted milk pail), American furniture ($135,000 for a Boston-made mahogany bombé chest, circa 1780), even tin toys ($3,105 for a Mickey Mouse organ grinder...
...these the only complaints. Some villagers-pointing out that land prices have risen fivefold in the past three years-are worried about the Olympics bringing inflation. "We'd better not get used to this boom," says one villager. "It won't last...