Word: glamourizer
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...stock market is no longer as faithful a mirror of the total economy as it once was, it inevitably reflected some of the caution. While the Dow-Jones index of blue chip industrials last,week inched back toward its alltime high of 706, many of the highly speculative "glamour" or "futuristic" issues stood far below their recent giddy peaks. Some had been selling at 100 or more times earnings. For one list of ten selected glamour stocks-(see chart), the fall-off since May amounted to nearly...
Blue Chips. Investors are switching into the stocks of well-seasoned companies that tend to grow in step with the economy. Many of these business-cycle stocks went unnoticed during the "glamour" boom and some are still underpriced. In fact, 25% of the stocks on the New York Stock Exchange are selling below their April 1956 levels, though the Dow-Jones has advanced 170 points since then...
Nikita Khrushchev could not match the glamour of the Kennedys' Paris visit in his own progress toward Vienna, but he did his best. To counter Jackie, he brought along his stout, pleasant-featured wife Nina (who was recently caught staring wistfully at high-fashion corsets at the British Trade Fair in Moscow). He arranged stopovers to receive welcomes from his own "allies." Boarding his private railroad car in Moscow, he stopped first at Kiev and then at Lvov, where a dutiful crowd turned out to cheer-even though Lvov is a Polish city snatched by the Ukraine after World...
Zanzibar, to the north, is like neither Madagascar nor Tanganyika. Once the major headquarters for Arab slavers, it is a lady island, pungent with the odor of cloves and the glamour of Araby. Tourists can ride the streets in dilapidated rickshas, visit the old Arab waterfront fort and the harbor, where old wooden dhows with odd-looking lateen sails load up for trips to the mainland. They can buy French perfumes, Indian craft jewelry, or copies of the famed, huge oaken "elephant doors," which are covered with spikes to keep elephants from leaning on them. They are an unusual curio...
...Administration will not oppose the proposed merger of the Lampoon with Smith and Conde-Nast, publishers of Mademolselle, Vogue, and Glamour. "The College will only interfere when the Lampoon violates a College rule," according to Dean Watson...