Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past, smoking cigarettes was generally not allowed, and locks were bolted at the toll of 10 p.m. Now all residences provide ashtrays because, as one Y.W. official explains, the girls smoked anyway and burned the furniture; any girl who signs out in the evening can get back in as late as 5 a.m. simply by ringing a buzzer. Although as a rule, men may still not advance above the lobby floor of residences, they have free run of the Y.W.'s recreational areas. The Boston center, which last week held its 100th annual meeting, has even opened its sauna...
...excess of the available supply of money." As a result, despite Federal Reserve pressure to keep borrowing costs low enough to stimulate the economy, interest rates on corporate and municipal bonds have climbed back to a point close to their 1966 peak. As the money pinch began easing late last year, yields of Aa-rated corporate bonds dropped from September's 6.35% zenith to a low of 5.20% by the end of January. By last week, the rate was back to 5.95% and still going...
...with conservative care, the FAA figured that sonic-boom problems would limit the aircraft to routes over oceans and sparsely populated areas. On that basis, it predicted sales of 500 planes, at $40 million each, by 1990. By the time the first SST is delivered to an airline in late 1974, the cost of building two prototypes, production facilities and parts inventories will total some $4.5 billion, including $3.43 billion at Boeing, which is assembling the airframe, and $1.07 billion at engine-building...
Reinforcing the Ties. For one thing, it promises to produce a big increase in world trade, just as the late President Kennedy hoped when he initiated the negotiations in 1963 as a way of reinforcing political ties between the U.S. and Europe. As some economists see it, the Kennedy Round also means the virtual demise of tariffs as an important obstacle to trade. On thousands of manufactured goods-including autos, machinery, ceramics, cameras and hats-most industrial countries agreed to slash their tariffs by the full 50% that Kennedy originally sought. As a result, the average tariff wall around...
...great a man ... so wise a ruler"? 5 Of Richard Nixon, after a 1950 California senatorial vote: "I'm very happy that Helen Gahagan Douglas has just been defeated by Richard Nixon"? 6 And who errs, no fewer than four times, in referring to the late Time Inc. editor-in-chief as Henry C. Luce...