Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...page bulk, backed up by an imposing appendix of 1,308 pages, is a thick forest of charts, tables and almost totally unrelieved print. Few Americans bother to penetrate this forest-and that is something of a shame. For those who do venture into it, the budget is rich in impressive landmarks, bizarre growths, hidden surprises, hints of the future and enough tantalizing trivia to dine out on for a year. "Budgets," says George Mahon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, "set goals, chart courses of action, outline expectations and embody anticipations." They are large slices of the nation...
...Best People. Always popular with Mexicans-former President Miguel Alemán has a palatial villa and is a faithful weekender-the resort is becoming the new sun spa for the international big rich and their attendant swingers, and the easygoing oldtimers are uneasily sniffing winds of change in Acapulco's famous breezes...
...including a U.S.-manufactured continuous miner, which is operated by three men, crunches coal seams with spinning metal teeth and can chew out ten tons a minute. Helped by government tax allowances, mine owners have so far spent $236 million on such new equipment; 98% of Australia's rich black coal is now efficiently mined by machine instead of pick and shovel. Mechanical equipment has trimmed the work force from 24,000 miners to 15,000; meanwhile, individual productivity and wages have both trebled...
...trap shut. Until the dialogue gets in his way, Hero Glenn Ford is quite persuasive as a gruff $9,200-a-year detective, blessed with "a beautiful home, the wife I want, a swimming pool, three cars and two servants." The fringe benefits have been provided by his rich missus, miscast Elke Sommer, who was obviously born to play a bauble-headed blonde who marries a man to enjoy his money instead of bringing her own. Elke makes a weak role weaker by delivering all of her lines as though she had learned them phonetically, but she at last articulates...
Baby-sitting is indeed a major expense for most of the Niemans who have children because most of us are not spending many evenings at home, but are sampling the offering of both Cambridge and greater Boston with a rich variety of activity that ranges from the Boston Symphony or Loeb Theater to a social gathering at a master's residence of just getting together at another Nieman's home with a specialist in some interesting area of modern society...