Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show. The format includes a twist: in one segment each week, she will interview a celebrity. But the real get-the-guest free-for-all should be ABC's Don Rickles Show. Rickles, the insult comic, will knock off a guest or two per weekly half-hour. ABC will also try TV's first weekly book musical, That's Life. For continuity, the one-hour show will have a regular star, Robert Morse, and a continuing theme, modern marriage...
...punch has battered the profits of some of the biggest carriers. United has suffered an earnings decline this year of 49.2%, Continental Airlines of 62.5%, Eastern of 63.3%. Even worse off is Trans World Airlines, which lost $1.78 million during the year's first half, compared with a profit of $7.62 mil lion in the same period last year...
...forced the Seattle company to put practicality over pride. Although wind-tunnel tests showed that the movable wing could perform well aerodynamically, it developed an insuperable weight problem. Carrying the 313-passenger payload envisioned for it, the 375-ton swing-wing SST would have had about one-half of its planned range of 4,600 miles-meaning that it would have run out of fuel over the Atlantic on a flight from New York to Paris...
...result, Britain has been forced to dip into its own gold and foreign currencies to buy sterling in order to keep the pound from falling too far below its $2.40 official price in foreign exchange markets. By midyear, British reserves had shrunk to $2.7 billion, less than half the amount of pounds held by individuals and central banks in the sterling bloc alone. With huge liabilities to many other countries as well, Britain was technically insolvent...
...Britain's sixth largest company (combined sales: $2.2 billion) raised fears of monopoly both within and outside the electrical industry. The new firm would rank among the world's five biggest electrical companies, accounting for 90% of Britain's output of railway locomotives and up to half of the country's turbo generators, switchgear and transformers. The potential of the new combine's market domination prompted executives of Plessey Co. Ltd., a smaller electrical firm, to denounce the merger as a competition-stifling monolith...