Word: recent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent Friday afternoon, a 1959 green Oldsmobile was parked alongside the curb in a middle-class residential neighborhood of New York City. Two men got out, removed the license plates, and opened the hood slightly to make the car look as if it had been stolen or left alone while its owner went for help. Then they withdrew to a nearby window, where-unseen-they could watch what was to happen...
Back of the Easel. In recent years, particularly, a growing number of artists have chosen this device as a way of making outspoken comments about the nature of their calling. The majority of these works are little more than postgraduate examples of those art school exercises in which students are called upon to copy older paintings or even to try to improve on them. A minority illuminate their topic unforgettably. By penciling a Dali-like goatee and mustache onto a reproduction of the Mono Lisa, Marcel Duchamp made it difficult for anyone looking at the lady thereafter to overlook either...
...month high of more than $2.39, lifted by the news that Britain's perennial trade deficit narrowed to practically nothing in January. The dollar, buoyed by last year's slight surplus in the usually deficit-ridden U.S. balance of payments, is stronger than at any time in recent memory. Yet amid such outward stability, signs of skittishness abound...
...havoc than economics. Frenchmen traditionally mistrust their own currency, and they have been spending francs rather than holding them, thus aggravating inflation. As a hedge against devaluation, they are converting francs not only into gold but also into "money substitutes" such as real estate, furs and fine wines. A recent poll showed that 45% of all Frenchmen expect a franc devaluation sometime this year...
...recent pressures on the conglomerate corporations have also helped reduce investor enthusiasm. Congress and several Government agencies have begun to investigate these acquisitive companies with a view toward eliminating the tax advantages that help them to make mergers (TIME, Feb. 21). A growing number of Wall Street analysts are beginning to suspect that many conglomerates have been overpriced. One of the most controversial conglomerates of all is debt-ridden Ling-Temco-Vought, which plans to reduce its controlling interest in Braniff Airlines from 67% to 55% and sell off some other assets, including all of its holdings in National...