Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because of a decline in the value of the dollar against the franc. This argument, of course, overlooks two screamingly obvious facts: a quintupling of oil prices since October 1973 has left the OPEC nations far ahead of the game, and the oil price boosts have mightily helped to fan the Western inflation about which they complain. Indeed, OPEC's plans reflect raw economic power; given their control of 68% of the world's proven oil reserves, the nations in the cartel can set prices just about anywhere they choose...
...Spartanburg and other survival towns, the minors are a dusty, dilapidated but proud anachronism. Here a kid fresh out of high school can still dream of making the big leagues, and a fan can see the color of a player's eyes from a $1.25 seat. At decaying College Park in Charleston, the mosquitoes outnumber the fans, the floodlights leave the centerfielder groping in the dark, and a park employee has to run out into rightfield every half-inning to update the Scoreboard. In Greenwood, Dave Fendrick, the young general manager of the Braves, has to collect tickets...
Gossip was once the province of the fan magazine or the newspaper column. With the diminution of these outlets, the stories have found their way between cloth covers. No matter how thick those covers, they cannot disguise the poverty and pretension of the contents. It may be true, as Edwin Booth observed, that most actors' work is writ on water. Alas, it is truer to say that most actors' lives are rot on paper...
...concert, and a second performance in Frankfurt fared almost as badly, causing Sinatra to cancel an appearance in Berlin and refund more than $85,000 to organizers of his West German tour. "Sinatra just is not part of the nostalgia wave now rolling over Germany," said one young music fan in Munich. "Now if you got Greta Garbo to sing in Munich or Berlin, the place would be packed and jumping...
...talk with the 33rd President, has sold 2½ million copies. Margaret Truman Daniel's affectionate memoir will be filmed this fall. James Whitmore's theatrical impersonation, Give 'Em Hell Harry! (TIME, May 12) is playing to S.R.O. audiences all across the country. A singularly ardent fan of the Truman boom is Gerald Ford, who recently assured Mrs. Daniel, "Everyone who knows me knows how I feel about your father."* Such high-level boosterism has given the country a sudden fit of Trumania. In addition to the books, there are Truman T shirts, bumper stickers and even...