Word: boomleteers
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...Pusey with President Bok, a man who needed no public relations spokesman. Professors Blum and Slichter, Bok, and Treasurer George Putnam all became new faces on the Corporation. Perhaps Harvard and Cleveland, like the rest of the country, was tired of dynamic and glamorous men; more likely the Calkins boomlet reflected few of Calkin's real desires...
...support the hearings in general and his performance in particular. Attorney John J. Wilson could not have done him a bigger favor than to call him a "little Jap." Since one-third of Hawaii's population is of Japanese origin, the state was indignant. There was even a boomlet for Inouye for President. A reader wrote the Honolulu Advertiser: "Inouye certainly has everything a President should have except a right...
...that corporations plan to spend $105.5 billion for new plant and equipment this year, a leap of 19% over last year, and about 5% higher than the Commerce Department was predicting two months ago. In plant investment, says Economist Walter Heller, "we have gone from an expansion to a boomlet to a boom." It should be restrained, he says, by suspending either the investment tax credit or the accelerated depreciation allowance...
...boomlet has been helped along considerably by the reception given to the first rotary-powered car available in the U.S., Japan's smooth-riding and exceptionally zippy Mazda (TIME, April 5, 1971). Some 20,000 Mazdas were sold last year, even though the car has been made available in only 20 states. Mazda already ranks as the seventh biggest-selling import. Toyo Kogyo, the manufacturer, has received no fewer than 2,300 applications for some 100 Eastern and Midwestern dealerships that will be awarded this summer and fall...
...death did put his life into perspective for some; the surprising result now, five years later, is a Bruce boomlet. Tom O'Horgan, following his production of Hair, planned to do a film of Lenny's life; the project stalled and O'Horgan reworked it as a Broadway play, scheduled to open this week. Writer-Director Fred Baker decided to produce a multimedia homage off-Broadway. Meanwhile a crude movie biography opened in New York to capitalize on the still-growing revivals...