Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOUND OF MUSIC. This Rich ard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical about the Trapp Family Singers who fled Austria after the Anschluss of 1938 has more sugar than spice, but a buoyant performance by Julie Andrews makes the show seem irresistibly gemiitlich...
Sharing the Dollar. Why the rush? The buoyant economy has encouraged Americans to spend their profits on pleasure. Airlines fostered the boom by increasing the number of flights and decreasing fares (the lowest seasonal round-trip rate from New York to Jamaica is $44 less than last year's). The main reason for the boom, and perhaps the simplest, is that winter vacations to sunny climates have become more and more a vital part of American life...
There was a perceptible upgrading of optimism last week, and a growing con viction that U.S. business can roll forward without pause in 1965. The buoyant mood was apparent in Washington, where some of the nation's leading economists, testifying before the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, almost unanimously predicted uninterrupted expansion. The bullish sentiment was obvious on Wall Street, where the stock market rebounded strongly from last month's fall. In the second heaviest trading in more than a year (7,100,000 shares in one day), the Dow-Jones industrial average rose every day, climbing 18 points...
...tlich heart tugs make a Lehar operetta seem grimly realistic by comparison. Viewers who want a movie to swell around them in big warm blobs will find Sound of Music easy to take. Sterner types may resist at the outset, but are apt to loosen up after a buoyant, heels-in-the-air song or two by Julie Andrews. Seconding her perky triumph as Mary Poppins, Julie turns every number into a bell ringer, and gives the comedy its zestiest scene when she punctures her employer's vincible mettle with a few white-hot verbal thrusts. As a footnote...
...prevent imbalances in the economy, Johnson again urged Congress to set up procedures that "will permit rapid action on temporary income tax cuts if recession threatens." He cited other measures that he expects to help keep the economy buoyant through 1965: an excise tax cut that would, if approved by Congress, amount to $700 million this year, $1.75 billion when fully implemented; a 7% boost in social security cash benefits, amounting to $1.25 billion a year; an increase of $3.5 billion in federal spending; income tax cuts, completing the two-stage provisions of last year's legislation, amounting...