Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead of slumping as usual after the Christmas rush, color-TV sales have continued to climb, are running at a rate 70% ahead of the record established last year (1,400,000 color sets sold). This industry expects a further lift this fall, when 96% of NBC's prime-time shows will be in color and CBS and ABC will also greatly increase color programming (TIME, March 19). Zenith's Wright predicts that the number of U.S. families with color sets will jump this year from 2,800,000 to 5,300,000-or one U.S. family...
After eighty years in a "hostile environment," Norman Thomas knows better than most what's going on; "I will retire," he confides, "when I can no longer lift the Sunday Times...
...people do the work. Coop-Pop has already resulted in 3,300 new rural and slum classrooms, 600 miles of country roads, 21 football fields, 40 parks, 36 canals, 21 reservoirs, 65 community centers, 48 churches and chapels. With his flair for the dramatic, Belaunde gave the program a lift just before his 51st birthday in October 1963, asking Peruvians to forget about the birthday baubles. "Just send me shovels," he said. Shovels he got-plus machetes, picks and hoes by the thousands, all of which went to the highlands. A few weeks ago, Belaunde invited a group of Indians...
...monetary migraines. The U.S. now has $96.9 billion worth of foreign investments and other assets: that is nearly double the $56 billion of foreign holdings in the U.S. American assets abroad range from giant factories to such enterprises as a mink farm recently opened in Korea, a ski lift run by two young expatriates in Berlin, and the two largest ad agencies in Brazil. World business has become so intertwined that European holdings in the U.S. are about as great as U.S. holdings in Europe. Such well-known companies as Capitol Records, U.S. Borax, Lever Bros, and Shell are European...
...Swiss will lift the secrecy veil if a depositor is accused of a serious crime, but they refuse to worry about tax dodgers. "We cannot act as a policeman for foreign governments," argues Schaefer. He says that his bank provides numbered accounts only for people known to its officers-"not Al Capones or South American generals" -and that it turned down deposits from the Dominican Republic's ousted Trujillo family. But he allows that "not all banks in Switzerland apply the same standards...