Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clinging Power. Lest anyone get the idea that This Morning is a kind of hangover from the Tonight Show, on his premiere Cavett brought on as his first guest Master Builder Buckminster Fuller (TIME cover, Jan. 10, 1964). "I'm only 72," said Fuller. "You don't look a day over 70," said Cavett. When the talk got more cosmic, Fuller suggested that in future centuries women would revert to wearing fig leaves. Cavett asked: "What is it about fig leaves. Do they have some peculiar clinging power?" Fuller: "They are relatively large and durable . . ." Cavett: "And washable...
...explanation is financial, not seasonal. A heavy season of costly specials makes any curtailment of new production an attractive idea. As a result, a "year" for a typical series now lasts 26 weeks. Jackie Gleason, in fact, turned out only 22 in his "season." He went to reruns...
...those whose idea of an oldie is pre-rock 'n' roll, there is still hope. A record called Love Is Blue has become a hit without any of the ingredients that pop musicians have considered necessary for the past few years: the juggernaut beat, the vocalisthenic performance, and the strain of novelty...
...Ansiaux of Belgium, Karl Blessing of Germany, Guido Carli of Italy, Jelle Zijlstra of The Netherlands, and Edwin Stopper of Switzerland-favored the view that the time has come to try the "two-tier" system of gold prices that many an economist has been urging. Under the two-tier idea, the U.S. and its economic allies would continue central-bank exchanges of gold and dollars at the $35-an-ounce price. But "mercantile" gold-that which is bought by speculators and industrial users-would be left free to seek its own price. The advantage of the system is that...
...tier system, like the foundering Gold Pool, would be used as merely a short-term solution to the gold drain. Before long the central bankers hope to implement the idea of special drawing rights that could be used as reserves along with gold and dollars. The S.D.R.s would be certificates representing members' credits in the International Monetary Fund. They would make it less necessary for other governments to hold so many dollars in reserve-and less burdensome for the U.S. to redeem these dollars with gold...