Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because the market is sturdier than a month or two ago, and offers some good buys among the blue chips. The market has successfully absorbed a series of new stock offerings (notably General Aniline's), which normally bleed cash from other stocks, and it has weathered the usual rush of tax selling before April 15. On the international front, the U.S.'s military gains in Viet Nam, the nation's apparently successful campaign to narrow its balance-of-payments deficit and Britain's determination to solve its problems with a belt-tightening budget have generally given...
...industry is also considering such ideas as wiper blades for headlights, autoguide devices on the front bumper that pick up signals from the highway's shoulder and guide the car, and G.M.'s completely automatic highway. But the automakers are in no hurry to rush new safety equipment to the market, and they are unlikely to move any faster on their own. One reason: installation of all the safety options already available would add $1,000 to the cost of the average...
...Untouchable. Hence Brahmin Henry Higgins' housekeeper would never let her use the same plates and bedding as the rest of the household. And if the high-caste guests at the famous tea party guessed they were socializing with an Untouchable, they would drop their teacups and rush to a temple to purify themselves...
...Farm. Last month two wandering prospectors stumbled on a 13-lb. hunk of white crystal on a 1,900-acre farm near Cristalina and hurried into town with the news. The reaction resembled The Gold Rush. The mayor, notary public, pharmacist and priest raced to the farm with the rest of the citizens hot on their heels. Laborers in nearby Brasilia threw aside their hods and streamed down the highway; so did lawyers, senators, civil servants, housewives and doctors...
Instead of slumping as usual after the Christmas rush, color-TV sales have continued to climb, are running at a rate 70% ahead of the record established last year (1,400,000 color sets sold). This industry expects a further lift this fall, when 96% of NBC's prime-time shows will be in color and CBS and ABC will also greatly increase color programming (TIME, March 19). Zenith's Wright predicts that the number of U.S. families with color sets will jump this year from 2,800,000 to 5,300,000-or one U.S. family...