Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Picture Researcher Rose Keyser visited the workshop where the Muppets are "born" and came away a true believer, like the rest of her colleagues. Says she: "Kids pick up the nuances in the Muppets. They enjoy the Muppets because everything else is a rerun. This is fresh, with universal appeal." And then she had a happy thought for the holidays: "I only wish that I could have all the Muppets to my house for Christmas dinner." As you'll see in this week's six-page story, that would guarantee a very merry Christmas indeed...
...truly mi nor, although they relate to the crux of a major Middle Eastern diplomatic problem: How directly should an Egypt-Israel peace be linked to a general Arab-Israeli settlement? So far, the negotiating process has proved remarkably durable, surviving major fluctuations as the hopes for a settlement rose, then plummeted, then rose again since Sadat's "sacred mission" to Jerusalem in November...
This year, real gross national product -total output of goods and services, discounted for inflation-probably rose only 3.8%. But consumer prices jumped so rapidly that in December they are likely to average 9.5% higher than at the end of last year. Result: the President, who began the year trying to prod the economy to faster growth, shifted gradually to a tight-budget policy and proclaimed wage-price guidelines that stop just short of mandatory controls. When even those measures failed to stop inflation and the sickening plunge of the dollar, President Carter on Nov. 1 welcomed a sharp increase...
...head turned by the West. At 17, he left his native village to join the French colo nial army. He served in Indochina before Dien Bien Phu and spent the middle '50s studying liberal arts in Wisconsin. Back home, married to a white college sweet heart, Ellelloū rose through the ranks under a French-puppet king and then emerged as the leader of the coup that put him in power...
...They are not to be confused with ordinary, reasonably priced reproductions, including posters, postcards and photos, which are not only defensible but useful; the new products are "luxury" substitutes. The demand for them is a reult of the art boom of the '60s and '70s, when prices rose with dizzying speed and millions of Americans were indoctrinated in the belief that art meant status and investment as well as refinement. So everyone wanted a Picasso; demand for "blue chip" artists was always ahead of supply...