Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still commands a movie-fan idolatry rare among longhairs. His ardently romantic manner of playing the piano is only part of the appeal; Cliburn also obviously enjoys crowds and loves applause and has a showman's sure instinct for using his gifts. At Lewisohn, Showman Cliburn was in peak form...
...money alone cannot provide what Latin America needs. The job requires massive private investment - at least $1 billion a year. But U.S. businessmen are reducing, not increasing, their stakes, sent only $95 million in net direct capital south of the border last year (v. $1.1 billion in the peak year 1957). Even more disheartening is the record of Latin American investors themselves, who have withdrawn an estimated $11 billion from their needy continent since World...
...ancient Inca capital of Cuzco, a handful of Peruvians and Americans met last week to dedicate a bronze plaque to U.S. Archaeologist Hiram Bingham and the mysterious lost city he discovered 50 years ago. Some experts believe that parts of the city, which Bingham named Machu Picchu (Old Peak), are 60 centuries old, which would make it 1,000 years older than ancient Babylon. More recently, if its ruins are interpreted correctly, it was at once an impregnable fortress and a majestic royal capital of an exiled civilization...
Under such pressure, South Korea's newspaper staffs have shrunk from a peak of 100,000 during Chang's regime to 15,000. Many reporters under 31 years of age have been fired on orders from the junta so that they can be drafted into the army and the National Construction Corps. Despite it all, few Koreans are sympathetic to the plight of the press. It has engineered its own ruin...
...Consumer spending will rise. Personal income stands at an alltime peak of $416.7 billion, but people have been banking 8% of their earnings-saving instead of spending, out of fear of unemployment. "Fewer layoffs will loosen the pocketbook," says American Motors Vice President Edward Cushman...