Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listed on the program) fancies himself a songwriter rather than a playwright; the songs are the highlights of the show. The singing argument ("Oh Yeah, Well Who's Got Christmas?") between the aged sorcerer (Bill Smock) and the medicant friar (Steve Bergman) over the relative merits of magic and religion is easily as good as anything I've heard at Harvard--including Pudding Shows...
Though originally appointed by President Kennedy, Budget Director Kermit Gordon came into his own in Washington under Lyndon Johnson. Reason: Gordon succeeded in keeping two consecutive budgets below the magic $100 billion mark, a feat that won him the ardent affection of figure-conscious Johnson...
...with the most frightful jitters. "Sure, she's a skyrocket on Broadway," said her manager. "But if 50 million people watch the show, 30 million will be watching someone they've never seen before." Such gloom about a girl whose five record albums all shot over the magic $1,000,000 mark in the past year - but it was catching. "The men in suspenders will never watch it," Barbra predicted, which led her to worry about "this family called Nielsen. Everyone asks, 'What are the Nielsens watching?' They think the whole country is watching what this...
...economy of Birmingham, Alabama, The Magic City, depends largely on the throbbing steel mills which ring its borders. While whites may hold any job and earn at any wage level, Negroes in the city are caught in a viscious circle of poverty; discriminatory employment practices prevent them from rising to even the most basic managerial positions. Not only does such discrimination strangle the economy of the Negro community, but it causes imbalance in education and housing and drives many of the community's more talented members away in search of better jobs...
...record corporate profits (up some 9% in the first quarter) and bright economic indicators at home (see THE NATION). So long as they continue, the stock market is almost certain to move well up into the 900s by year's end, even if it does not reach the magic 1000 figure that some Wall Streeters look...