Word: boomlet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his boosterish manner, Shriver is a shrewd politician. In 1957 his reputation as a businessman, tireless fund raiser and efficient president of the Chicago Board of Education resulted in a brief Sargent-for-Governor boomlet. It subsided quickly, but his friends expect another to develop-say, two years from now. "I don't have any current plan to run for office," he says, "but who knows what will happen in 1968 in Illinois?" He notes nonetheless that Governor Otto Kerner is finishing his second term, and only one man has ever run successfully for three terms in Illinois...
Girls & Sewing Machines. It is Vientiane's unique charm to be riding the crest of an economic boomlet as political disaster perpetually surrounds it. Indian and Chinese shops are stocked with Scotch whisky, Benares silks, Dior perfumes and Max Factor cosmetics. But under it all lurks the perennial mood of bo peng nhan (it doesn't matter), scrofulous pi-dogs howl their way past open drains, and the sidewalks under the glittering shop windows are perilous with potholes...
...Since 1947, Russia has pumped $1,920,000,000 in aid and loans into Bulgaria's predominantly agricultural economy. As a result, Bulgarians have moved off the farms (where 70% of the 8,000,000 population lived just 20 years ago v. 50% today) and into a boomlet of industrialization. To the $838.3 million worth of vegetables, shiny apples, bursting grapes, jams, jellies, butter and milk that Bulgaria exported in 1963 was added a growing stream of batteries, machine tools, pumps, electric hoists, pharmaceuticals and steel products. One of Bulgaria's biggest hard-currency earners is the booming...
...boomlet has come chiefly from the five big U.S. cities that still have rapid rail transit: New York, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland and Philadelphia. But Atlanta and Washington, D.C., are planning new systems, Philadelphia is already engineering one, and even Los Angeles is toying with the idea. San Francisco, having broken ground for a three-county, $925 million system - the nation's biggest in more than half a century - is testing four systems of computer-controlled train operation proposed by General Electric, Westinghouse Electric, Westinghouse Air Brake and General Signal. With all this going on, industry experts predict that annual...
That possibility came in the form of a burning boomlet for Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Chicago's powerful Democratic Mayor Dick Daley, a longtime political pal of the Kennedy clan, has made it known that he favors Bobby. So have a clutch of Northern and Midwestern Governors and state and county party chairmen. From his sickbed in Boston, Ted Kennedy declared himself in on the boomlet. NBC Cor respondent Nan Dickerson reported that Jackie Kennedy would return from cruising Yugoslav waters to attend the convention and "help Bobby." To top it off, convention planners were scheduling a massive tribute...