Word: maye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Campaign for Controls. The slowness of this schedule prompts the cry for more direct action against prices. Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii warned the annual conference of the American Bankers Association in Honolulu last week: "No one likes wage and price controls, but we may have to institute them temporarily to halt galloping inflation." Many labor leaders agree, provided that similar controls are put on profits and dividends. At its convention in Atlantic City, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. last week called for Government action to hold down the costs of medical care, insurance and housing. The Administration, however, remains dead...
Nixon has already had some success in convincing businessmen that economic exuberance will not continue indefinitely. Even so, many in the business community worry that rising unemployment or the approach of the 1970 elections may cause the Administration to lose its nerve and ease its battle against inflation too soon. After four years, the disease is too deeply embedded in the economy to be susceptible to a quick cure...
...nearly 1,000 Coke bottlers will get the first look at the new look in a sound-and-light show that is billed as the most impressive indoor event in that city since the 1939 premiere of Gone With the Wind. To the casual outsider, however, the expensive extravaganza may have all the impact of a flourish of trumpets and a roll of drums-followed by two Coke bottles clinking weakly together...
...colors and patterns. He is a member of the Italian Parliament in the minority Liberal (meaning conservative) Party. At his Palazzo Pucci on Via Pucci in downtown Florence, he spends hours a day sorting through stacks of mail from the worlds of both fashion and politics. "One letter may be a request for an interview as a fashion designer," he says. "The next letter is from a constituent who complains about the electricity service in his village." With his elegant wife Cristina, 31, and two children, Pucci lives the restless life, traveling, speaking, designing, electioneering (he hands out signed scarves...
...cost for a day's riding ranges from $1 for children to $3 for adults. Teams of lifeguards enforce strict safety precautions and instruct landlocked tyros. If inland surfing catches on, a projected Clairol subsidiary may build other such centers around the country, paying a royalty to Dexter and his 30 stockholders. In the meantime, Dexter is practicing his surfing. Though he loves the sport, he has never before found time to get very good...