Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individual fund raising for the G.O.P. Last week California's Governor was off on his third cross-country speaking tour since September. From the Tulsa fairgrounds to Pittsburgh's Syria Mosque, crowds in four states gathered for a boffo blend of patter and polemic that made party cash registers ring-a-ding. However, the Reagan charisma has had less impact on the populace at large. According to the latest polls, his national popularity has dipped dramatically in the past three months: he now trails President Johnson 33% to 55% and Richard Nixon 22% to 65% in popularity...
...Paris, where most AWOLs take French leave, the French Communist Party has provided them with cash. A Tokyo group known as Beheiren-the Japan Peace for Viet Nam Committee -offers deserters similar hospitality, demonstrates regularly at U.S. installations and helped get the four Intrepid sailors to the Soviet Union. While the Pentagon does not feel that such activities are a major problem, the U.S. Navy has told the men of the U.S.S. Enterprise to be wary of Beheiren when the nuclear carrier docks in Sasebo this week...
...match up coupons to spell out a slogan in its "Dino Dollars" contest. With no requirement that the driver buy gas (thus ensuring that the games will not be classified as lotteries) and with prizes including watches, luggage, color-TV sets, automobiles and up to $10,000 in cash, the oil companies' 304 different current giveaway contests would seem like hard acts to knock...
With the average length of retirement now 13 years, the threat of inflation means that the cash value of a family's life insurance could well prove inadequate to its old-age needs. As a hedge, more and more Americans are turning to mutual funds, which, after all, promise growth instead of fixed returns. Rather than fight the swing to mutuals, the insurance industry itself is enthusiastically joining...
...Michigan-based Federal Life & Casualty Co., a Channing subsidiary, has found that the mutual fund helps agents sell more insurance. Much of it, to be sure, is of the low-cost term variety that expires when the policyholder reaches a specified age. The fact that such insurance has no cash value, notes Federal Vice President H. Curtis Reed, does not bother investors "who expect to accumulate $50,000 in mutual funds at the end of 20 years...