Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everywhere, ongoing fads are picking up momentum. Among the campus set, wall posters depicting its heroes and anti-heroes are bigger than ever. "When wa-,j#^ '" " ter is boiling, it's hard to tell when it gets hotter, but the fad hasn't reached its peak," says Martin Geisler, owner of Manhattan's Per PROTEST BUTTON sonality Posters. Right now the Monkees are the most popular of his 70 posters; other favorites, each for $1, include Chairman Mao, Dracula, the Hell's Angels, Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Ginsberg in his Uncle Sam suit...
This season, he started slowly, but launched a five-meet winning streak about half-way through. "Actually everything started to come together after I lost to Manness by 13 points at Princeton," Murphy said. "I hit my peak against Yale" -- he won the dive by 40 points -- "and then the Eastern just fell into place...
...Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee last week, $1.3 billion in Government securities were bought up to free still more money for lending. At his press conference last week, Johnson proudly announced that interest rates"have come down as much as 1½% from their September peak." The President was being rather selective: Treasury-bill rates have dropped that much, but interest on business loans is down not much more than...
...reluctance to end loophole-loaded controls on wages and prices. Unemployment reached 602,844 last month, leaving 2.6% of the labor force jobless against a 2% level that Prime Minister Harold Wilson once called "acceptable." Rising food prices have helped pull the cost of living to a new peak. Worst, industrial productivity has failed to improve, and though help might have come from private investment, instead such investments have slumped. Soaring government spending for defense, welfare, roads, schools, housing and nationalized industries has raised the specter of higher taxes next month, a move that some economists fear would only deepen...
...fortune to putting Britain's green racing colors into the lead on Formula I Grand Prix auto circuits, built his first Vanwall racing car in 1954, two years later won his first victory at the Silverstone International Trophy race with Stirling Moss at the wheel, and reached a peak in 1958 when his Vanwall beat the Italians and Germans in six out of ten Grand Prix races for the championship; of pneumonia; in London...