Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thirds of all spending, the consumer has only to shell out an extra 3½% to give the same boost to the economy as a 15% rise in business spending or a 21% increase in federal outlays. Last week it was disappointingly apparent that, in the general pageant of recovery, the consumer is still waiting in the wings, refusing to come onstage to make the show an unqualified hit. September retail sales, announced the Commerce Department, dropped one-quarter of 1% from the August level to $18,166,000,000 (see chart...
...President, that Thursday was quite a day. He chatted briefly with West Virginia's Jo Ann Odum, 19, who will soon represent the U.S. in the Miss World Pageant. He lunched-after several postponements-with the brass of Advise and Consent, being filmed in Washington (see SHOW BUSINESS). Later, he received a delegation from a businessmen's group headed by U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough. Once officially attached to the Department of Commerce with the title of Business Advisory Council, the group had broken away last summer when Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges tried to curb its authority. Ever...
Miss America Pageant (CBS, 9:30 p.m.-12 midnight). The breathless finale of the annual contest, from Atlantic City...
...four years in the badlands, showing his metamorphosis from dude to rough rider, his encounters with horse thieves, cattle rustlers, and a French nobleman who tried to set up a meat-packing empire long before Swift took on Armour. Following T.R.'s memoirs about the period, the pageant's Dakota cowboys take one look at his glasses and begin calling him "Four Eyes." T.R. bats all of them and sternly vows reform when he witnesses the lynching of a horse thief...
Never more popular than they are now, the pageant plays may nonetheless have hit some sort of peak in a single line in a production staged three years ago at Lake City, Colo. A long dead, excessively rocky mountaineer named Albert Packer was revived each night and retried for murder and cannibalism; with injudicious partiality, the judge glared vengefully at him and said: "There was seven Democrats in Hinsdale County, and you et five of them...