Word: fruitings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...molded plastic papoose is propped on what looks like an unscratchable table top whose resins have been stroked into a semblance of rose wood or walnut. A bowl of wax fruit pledges eternal ripeness. An imitation slate counter neatly divides the family room from the kitchen area. Through an expanse of sliding glass doors, the electric company's pylons can be seen striding across the valley, a step ahead of the subdivisions...
Tatum learned to smoke for the role, but vows "I'm not going to smoke in real life-Humphrey Bogart died from it." Harder than smoking was a scene where she had to go up to a candy counter and say, "Can I have some Juicy Fruit gum, please?" She had flu, was "full of penicillin, and my mind was spinning." Bogdanovich decided he wanted her to ask for Dentyne. "I told him, 'You can't do that. I'm sick. I've learned my lines and I can't do it over...
...Finance, helping set up the country's first securities market. Munroe, who was once a broker in Beverly Hills, is convinced that overseas investment in Viet Nam is about to take off. "By 1975, there should be a rush to invest," he says, "in everything from rice, fruit and fish to rubber, timber, molybdenum and oil. There are tremendous long-range business opportunities. It's like frontier California; there's a great potential for growth...
...UPCOMING MOSCOW VISIT: I am not thinking much in terms of taking new initiatives in [international] affairs. [In going to Moscow] I am not trying to obtain some specific political or diplomatic object, but I have a feeling that just my going there will bear some fruit. After all, President Nixon achieved a detente with Peking; and then he visited Moscow, and now the U.S. is selling the Russians 18 million tons of wheat. But before going there I will visit the U.S. President Nixon went to Peking without telling anybody, but I will not do that kind of thing...
...dazzling economy have long complained that Japan, Inc. is a very closely held corporation. For example, individual foreigners are forbidden to own more than 10% of the stock in any Japanese company, and firms in no fewer than 704 separate industries, including everything from automobile manufacture to fruit-juice production cannot be more than 50% owned by non-Japanese. Last week the Foreign Investment Council, a key board of private businessmen and economists that advises the government, recommended cracking open this protectionist wall. The Tokyo government is expected to approve, and shortly after, with a few notable exceptions, foreign investors...