Word: showing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Profits. Inflation plays a widely overlooked role in the swing to apartments. The rising cost of land, labor and materials (lumber prices have soared 30% this year) has driven up the total price of for-sale homes in many areas much faster than rents have climbed. Labor Department figures show that the cost of renting in the Los Angeles area, for example, has risen 12% since 1960, while the cost of home ownership has gone...
...instead of going into bankruptcy, the Israelis are celebrating what they call a boomchik. Recently, in the midst of the Jews' annual Succoth harvest festival, Finance Minister Ze'ev Sharef officially hailed the end of the three-year economic downturn. "All signs show that we have finally overcome stagnation," he said. "There are no longer any real obstacles to our development...
...broader clientele. To that end, for example, some of the New York City outlets are currently being remodeled to make their liquor-dispensing bars just as conspicuous as the familiar soda fountains. Such changes are aimed mainly at the 35-to-40 age group. "Our surveys show that these people are good spenders," says Shattuck. "They may not have very much money, but they spend...
Died. Tribbie Chafee, 14, third of Rhode Island Governor John H. Chafee's six children; of injuries suffered when she was kicked in the head by a horse after performing in a horse show; in Providence...
...warmhearted Kate Bradley in TV's Petticoat Junction; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. After years of bending her voice on radio into every accent from Brooklyn to the Ozarks as a comic foil for Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny, Bea finally got a chance to show her face on TV. In 1950, she appeared as Blanche Morton on The George Burns-Gracie Allen Show and in 1962, as Cousin Pearl on The Beverly Hillbillies, before graduating to Petticoat Junction...