Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort is most likely to founder over the future of Walvis Bay, Namibia's principal port (see box). Pretoria wants to trade the harbor for a cooperative attitude from the new Namibian regime after it takes power. SWAPO insists that Walvis Bay, through which 90% of the territory's international trade passes, must become part of Namibia...
...with the technotronic times. And hucksters have long relied on the power of a clever name to sway a customer's decision. The popularity of Cheer and All among detergents, and Mustang and Diplomat among autos, is no more due to the properties of the merchandise than the box-office power of a John Wayne movie is usually owed to artistic excellence. The hottest new perfume, now U.S.-bound from Paris, is called Opium. No telling how the doomed Edsel might have done if it had been dubbed, say, the Frolic...
...burlesque was not entirely a joke. What confronted Jimmy Carter last week as he returned to Washington from the glittering pomp of his talks with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and the economic summit in Bonn was the harsh fact that his presidency is in deep trouble. His Oval Office In box was overflowing with problems: mounting inflation, the energy deadlock, the failure of tax reform, the Turkish arms embargo, the chill in relations with the Soviet Union. There was even an embarrassing furor over the discovery that White House Health Adviser Dr. Peter Bourne had written an improper drug prescription. Surveying...
...most of South America, political power is conferred by the barracks rather than the ballot box. Only two of the continent's Latin nations (Colombia and Venezuela) are Western-style democracies; Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile remain under more or less strict military control. In a few countries, however, the armed forces have been trying to ease their khaki embrace-so far with mixed results...
Misha's impact at the box office was immediate. Says Herbert Chesbrough, manager of the arts center: "There is a demand for tickets we literally don't have." The dancers are excited. One admits there is "healthy envy" among men who may have to wait longer to get certain roles. But, says another, "we haven't seen some of the moves he has. After he leaves the rehearsal room, the boys try them...