Word: going
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Owens gets the ball deep in the backfield, and the idea, he says, "is to get to the line quick. You go pitter-patter-in' up there and they'll be waiting for you with a smile. Then pow! And the lights go out." They rarely go out for Owens, even though he operates in heavy traffic-from tackle to tackle. There have been times, however, when his savage, slashing style-quick start, high knee action, body leaning forward -proved embarrassing. More than once, he has burst through into the secondary, only to have his own momentum carry...
...definitely getting out are frank about it: their three-year contracts will soon be up, and they think their pay is lousy ($750 to $1,500 per week). As Judy Carne puts it, "They're very mean at Laugh-In with their money. You can't go into a toy store that doesn't have Laugh-In dolls-even Laugh-In bubble gum. Somebody is cleaning up on us. Now they have Laugh-In restaurants, Fickle-Finger-of-Fate sandwiches." The dropouts are no slouches in the cleaning-up department, of course. They draw anywhere from...
...year. Last week, for example, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority sold $137 million worth of bonds at a tax-free interest yield of 7%, compared with a 5⅞ yield on bonds that it had sold four months earlier. Interest rates on high-grade corporate bonds are threatening to go above 9%. The yield on bellwether U.S. Treasury bonds maturing in 1992 has climbed to 6.72%, and the price of each bond has dropped from $1,000 in 1962 to $714. Even at those interest rates, most bond issues are selling slowly. Mortgage rates on homes have risen...
...same day as the nickel increase, major U.S. producers of lead lifted their prices by 1/2?per Ib., to 16?, the sixth increase this year. Almost immediately, General Battery Corp. said that automotive and industrial batteries, which contain much lead, would go up. 5%. The higher lead prices reflect greater world demand for the metal and a paucity of new supplies...
...face of such widespread price increases, businessmen are continuing to boost their capital spending budgets, figuring that they had better invest before prices go up still more. During this year's third quarter, according to the National Industrial Conference Board, capital budgets of the nation's 1,000 largest manufacturers went up at an annual rate of 3.7%. That was not as big a rise as the 13% increase in the second quarter, but a rise nonetheless. Before businessmen bet less, the Administration will have to show them more convincing evidence that they are going to lose...