Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actors can't sing and the singers can't act). Sample lyric: "You are the Ganges of my heart, and I am the Jumna of your heart. Where, oh where, is the confluence?" During intermissions audiences devour fried field peas or sherbet, drink Cokes, then exit to buy copies of the movie's songs...
...architect Le Corbusier. Homemade ghee (clarified butter), which villagers not long ago insisted was the only nourishing cooking medium, is giving way to sealed tins of vegetable oil; kerosene-burning hurricane lanterns are supplanting the traditional Aladdin-like mud diva in peasant huts, and well-to-do farmers often buy a second lantern to hang outside as a sign of affluence. Though most villagers still prefer cooking fires of cow dung, some huts now boast $2 oil stoves. Rural electrification is also spreading, but slowly, with an estimated 80% of India's power requirements still supplied by animal...
Consumers' intentions to buy new cars in the next few months are just as high as ever, reports the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center. Whether they will remain high will hinge largely on how well the '66 styling goes over. Unwilling to tamper with styling that has worked so well, Detroit plans no big dramatic changes. The trends will be to even more luxury options (example: a push-button system that enables the driver to set his car to a given speed and cruise without touching the accelerator), more powerful engines, longer bodies, less chrome...
...ashtrays and do not throw gum wrappers on the floor. When Smith listed his growing firm (1964 sales: $7.2 million) on the American Stock Exchange last month, he traveled to Manhattan to get the usual VIP treatment: a tour of the exchange, lunch with the officers, the chance to buy the first shares of the traded stock. What he experienced did not sit well with Smith, who first began stamping out roof fittings on a press in his father's basement. Last week, in a controversy that vastly embarrassed the exchange, he demanded that Wolverine stock be delisted...
Coffee prices have risen a bit in the past few months, but with a record crop forecast for next season, traders predict that the recovery will be short-lived. Though it can ill afford the expense, the Brazilian government expects to buy up half of this year's crop in an effort to prop prices. Colombia, dependent on coffee for 70% of its exports, has resorted to bartering for goods that it lacks the dollars to buy...