Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford and Chevrolet; in the last few years dealers have been forced to cut profits drastically just to move their cars. The first question a buyer now asks when he walks into a showroom is: How much below list can I get it for? Result: haggling is in its heyday. Sighs E.C. McAllister, head of his own Mercury-Comet agency in Dallas: "It's like an Arabian bazaar...
...hopelessly unsalable show such as Menotti's opera, Maria Golovin. He can haggle with a star over $15, more or less, to be paid a dresser, yet he is often liberal with authors' advances. He is widely celebrated as Broadway's biggest s.o.b. since the heyday of Jed Harris, but he has the respect of many professionals from Josh Logan to Garson Kanin, and his steady, money-making backers think he is a major prophet...
...influential heyday, Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, now finished with a three-month stretch for contempt of court and adjudged psychologically incompetent to stand trial on a tax evasion rap, tried to extend his sphere of largesse beyond Presidential Aide Sherman Adams. Among other grand gestures, Goldfine once sent every state Governor a bolt of costly vicuna fabric turned out in his own mills. One Governor who never returned the gift was Michigan Democrat G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, Jack Kennedy's new Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Last week, at a farewell party thrown for him by Michigan...
...famed theorist on international law whose practical experience dates back to the days of the League of Nations, where he assisted crusty old Elihu Root in dealings with the League's Permanent Court of International Justice. Jessup's career suffered a setback during the McCarthy heyday when the Senate, on the strength of a 1951 Internal Security Subcommittee investigation, withheld confirmation of his appointment as a U.S. delegate to the U.N. (Senators objected to his connections with the Red-infiltrated Institute of Pacific Relations and his editing of a 1949 State Department white paper which flatly blamed Chiang...
...lusty heyday, the Toronto Star, Canada's biggest paper, once hired an entire railroad train to get its men to a story, invariably called liquor "booze," and interviewed heiresses and potentates around the globe. Last week Star readers might have wondered whether they were in for a new era of eccentric journalism: as new boss of the Star's news-gathering staff, the paper named Dr. (of Divinity) Charles B. Templeton, 44, who once cut a wide swath in Canada and the U.S. as a boy-wonder evangelist...