Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chili con carne and cherries flambé, It's dinner at eight and it's patching the chimney, And getting verse published like Phyllis McGinley...
...punctilious picnicker and Sunday sailor who loves wine but hates corkscrews, Faye et Cie. of Mâcon, France, has put vin in a can for 99?, is now selling it in six-packs in supermarkets from Los Angeles to Boston. The imbiber's report: no sour grapes. The wine is Beaujolais, one of the few that should be drunk young, and canning arrests the aging process, whereas bottling prolongs...
Gemini 4 had its failures-a missed rendezvous, a stuck hatch, a computer that malfunctioned - but they were minor compared with its stunning success. Space officials made no effort whatever to conceal their optimism. Minutes after the Gemini 4 capsule splashed down, they flashed this con fident message on TV screens at the Space Center: "End of flight plan-tune in next time...
...short-lived. After the Erie Canal was completed in 1827, Niagara Falls became the first frontier town on the way West. By the time the New York Central came in 1858, it was one of the rip-roaringest burgs in the U.S. Floozies and fakes, barkers and con men made the Niagara the rube's Rubicon. "Indian chiefs"-chiefly from Ireland-plied a brisk trade in white pebbles, which they hawked as "congealed Niagara spray." The cries of "hackmen, photographers and vendors of gimcracks," wrote a horrified Henry James, "at times drown out the thunder of the cataract...
...something close to the 1964 level of 1,584,000 units. many other experts lean toward the view of James C. Downs Jr., chair man of Chicago's Real Estate Research Corp.: "The market is still oversupplied, and I foresee no dramatic improve ment." One encouraging sign: April con tracts for residential construction, a ba rometer of work to come hit a record $2.1 billin, up to 7? from a year...