Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nefertiti nose, they found some Bugs Bunny teeth. For the Brooklyn Jewish goil, they got a shikse from Alaska, and so after 708 performances and a gross for the show of $7,800,000, Barbra Streisand left Broadway's Funny Girl, bequeathing the Fanny Brice part to toothsome Mimi Mines, 32. It was a tough act to follow, but Mimi grinned gratefully: "It's easier to follow a good act than a bad one-it's not like this show was a bomb." Neither was Mimi. Everyone of course would think of Barbra, but after...
Despite these prospects, Singapore may face insurmountable odds. Manufacturing provides only 20% of its gross national product, and the vast British naval and military bases provide 23%. Thus more than half Singapore's economy is still dependent upon trade, and as the country's relations with its neighbors remain tense, other Asian lands are eagerly grabbing its business...
Drum majorettes are the feature at the Albion, cowgirls at the Las Vegas, and at the Transistor Cutie Club a bevy of "teeny-weeny wonders" all under five feet tall are trained to peer up tactfully at the businessman in elevator shoes. All told, Tokyo's clubs gross some $1,500,000 a night. From Christmas week through the New Year, they count on trebling that take...
...growing 5% in real terms, the U.S. experienced a sharper expansion than any other major nation. Even the most optimistic forecasts for 1965 turned out to be too low. The gross national product leaped from $628 billion to $672 billion?$14 billion more than the President's economists had expected. Among the other new records: auto production rose 22% , steel production 6% , capital spending 16% , personal income 7% and corporate profits 21%. Figuring that the U.S. had somehow discovered the secret of steady, stable, noninflationary growth, the leaders of many countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain openly tried...
...Jones average has jumped more than 400 points since mid-1962 and last week closed at an alltime high of 966. Businessmen plan in 1966 to increase capital spending 15% ; automakers and steelmakers expect to top this year's production records. Ackley and his colleagues anticipate that the gross national product will grow another 5% in real terms during 1966, to $715 billion?or perhaps more...