Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department forecasts a healthy Soviet grain crop of 200 million tons this year, short of Moscow's hoped-for 239 million tons but still the best since 1978. That will reduce the Soviets' grain-import needs for the next twelve months to 30 million tons, from a peak of 46 million tons two years...
Drive-ins made their biggest gains in the years following World War II, when car registrations zoomed and the rush to the suburbs began. They hit their peak in 1958, with 4,063 outdoor screens-"ozoners," as they were called in the trade. To attract young families, some operators set up playgrounds and offered warm milk, fresh diapers and even laundry facilities, so Mom could do the family wash while watching Mamie Van Doren undulate through High School Confidential. Since then the number of drive-ins has dropped dramatically. By 1980 there were only 3,504 screens; last year...
DIED. George Lichty, 78, creator and cartoonist (from 1932 to 1974) of the satirical Grin and Bear ft, syndicated at its peak in more than 300 newspapers; of a heart attack; in Santa Rosa, Calif. His distinctive one-panel series was neither comic strip nor editorial cartoon, though his jokes grew more topical. One regular character, the bombastic Senator Snort, was a favorite of President Harry Truman, who owned twelve original Lichty cartoons...
Although--as rap godfather Grandmaster Flash pointed out in a recent adulatory Phoenix feature, the genre may have already passed its peak--the unwashed masses getting funkmatized. It seems inevitable that rap music will be sucked into the mainstream, just as have fringe musical elements in the past...
...Italy have been fully booked since early May. The new cut-rate ($149) People Express transatlantic flights are sold out through mid-September (see box). Sales of American Express vacation packages, which are almost all priced below 1980 levels, are running 43% ahead of last year, and for the peak month of June were 100% ahead. TWA has already sold 175% more of its budget Supersaver tours than it did during the same period last year. Many budget packages are virtually sold out. To plan late is often to pay more this year...