Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...numbers of Harvard applications have remained relatively stable for the past two years. After a jump of 1000, from 5600 to 6600, for the class of 1969, the baby boom leveled off. The number remained about the same for the class of 1970, and rose to 7100 for the present freshman class...
More All Around. Under the final terms-which still must be ratified by the rank and file-the average $4.81 an hour in wages and benefits Ford workers now get will rise by about $1 during the next three years, starting off with an immediate -age jump of 20? an hour. At around 7% overall, the new package seemed sure to outrun the 5% increase-6.6% including subsequent cost-of-living adjustments-that the U.A.W...
...metal spring for a tail, are so well known that they set all sorts of precedents for the neo-Dadaists of the 1960s. But in this category, too, there are delightful examples of Picasso's wit never seen before, including a little girl caught skipping rope in mid-jump, and a pipe-tube, stiffly starched nurse pushing a baby in a pram...
Chrysler, which took a two-week jump on its rivals in '68 sales, maintained its furious pace with its full-sized Plymouth Furies and Dodge Po-laras. Watched intently at Chrysler were the increased sales of Plymouth's intermediate Belvedere, which was restyled with a racy hop-up in the rear fenders and a faster roof line. American Motors Corp. also had increased sales-mostly because its new Javelin specialty cars were hitting the mark. One Dallas dealer crowed that for the first time in memory, "the kids came en masse...
...spending more than half a billion dollars of valuable exchange while enjoying the scenery. In the first eight months of 1967, there was a 28.7% increase over 1966 as 973,578 business and pleasure visitors arrived from overseas. In August, 191,494 travelers arrived in the U.S., a 50.2% jump over the same month last year. Impressive percentage increases in tourists during the eight months were shown by Finland (94.2%), France (89.4%), Ecuador (67.3%) and Japan...