Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luxurious Demand. "Consumer spending is not falling, but it is shifting -from autos to services, from appliances to apparel,'' says Commerce Department Economist Louis Paradise. The housing collapse has hurt markets for furniture, floor coverings, refrigerators and washers. Yet retailers note substantial increases in demand for costly clothes, furs and diamonds, despite a nervous stock market which could be expected to cut sales of luxury goods. Sales of color TV sets will climb from 2,750,000 last year to about 4,750,000; actually, TV makers could do much better were they not slowed by shortages...
...week Haddon saw fit: he announced that more than 500,000 late-model cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles have been recalled by domestic and foreign manufacturers to check on some 40 potential flaws. These statistics were deceptive, and Ford Division General Manager Donald Frey, for one, was quick to note that probably no more than 5% of the recalled cars actually had anything wrong with them...
...Hasty-Pudding concept of the whole production, some of the cast members fill their parts quite competently. Chris Baker, though ridiculously miscast as Mosca, delivers a good comic aside, moves comfortably around the stage, and neatly captures the slyness of the character. Peter Goldberg's Volpone is one-note throughout, since he is physically unable to simulate death-bed sickliness; otherwise Goldberg achieves a sadly uncomic lechery that fills the role, but hardly realizes...
...another room, darkened by afternoon shadows, a teenage boy plays the piano. He forgets a note, and has to fight back tears as he explores the cumbersome Braille sheet music with his fingers...
Eastern hockey will be enjoying its best year ever, and a good number of losses will inevitably come the Crimson's way. But on any given night, Harvard will be capable of beating the best. The only dark note present as the season gets under way is one that hurts the fans: only 9 of Harvard's 24 games will be played in Watson Rink...