Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seal, Wild Strawberries, Brink of Life, The Magician-they have carried off top prizes at the big film festivals and set the turnstiles twirling on the commercial circuits as no Scandinavian film has done since Garbo was a girl. And last week Stockholm was looking aghast at the latest product of Bergman's imagination, a religious horror picture called The Virgin Spring (TIME, Feb. 29) that contains "the most terrible rape and murder scenes ever seen in a film." A Stockholm critic called it "Bergman's best...
...over the last ten years. The Pentagon explains that most of the funds went out in the early 1950s, when the French were fighting in Indo-China. France contends that it well deserves a large aid lift because it budgets so much for defense, 8% of its gross national product v. the U.S.'s 10% of its G.N.P. (But most of France's defense spending goes to wage the war in Algeria.) Next highest recipient in the 1950s was Italy, which got $1.8 billion, but budgets only 4% of its G.N.P. for defense...
...with the giant strides of the past. Last week in a calm, carefully documented report, James W. Knowles, longtime (ten years) staff economist for the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, reported that the assumption is away off base. The U.S. economy gained only an average 2.9% annually in gross national product in the half century between 1909 and 1959, after taking into account inflationary price rises that average 2⅓% a year (TIME, Feb. 2, 1959). Considering the nature of today's economy, the U.S. can expect to top the old rate by a considerable margin during the next...
...good for skis as for planes. He proved his point by becoming the first manufacturer to sell metal skis in quantity. Head announced that his Baltimore-based Head Ski Co. Inc. this season will ship a record 42,000 pairs of metal skis. So popular is his product that 14,000 pairs will go to overseas customers, mostly in Austria and Switzerland, the traditional ski centers...
...Squaw Valley last week, Olympic skiers were testing a new racing ski Head has developed to overcome the problem of fluttering at high speeds, which slows the skier. As Head walked the slopes seeking pointers on how to improve his product, he saw dramatic proof of the superiority of metal skis. For the first time in Olympic history a gold medal was won by a skier. Frenchman Jean Vuarnet, wearing metal skis, developed especially by a French firm. For Head this was proof that the metal ski will be as good for racing...