Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hustle, the dance with partners [Aug. 25], is a sign of things to come, I embrace it. Dancing with a partner is prettier and friendlier than just standing opposite someone thinking your own thoughts, doing your own thing. It is a social grace, nicer than saying hello and it is fun to exchange bons mots while dancing with an old friend or someone you have just...
...sign of the increasing edginess in Washington is the rising controversy over the sale of American grain to the Soviet Union. The Ford Administration has publicly endorsed the sale but the AFL-CIO's president, George Meany, vowed that the International Longshoremen's Association would not load such grain unless Ford did more to "protect the American consumer and the American shipping industry." He declared that the Administration must come to him with such guarantees and "with Dr. Kissinger at the head of the parade." Growled Meany: "Foreign policy is too damned important to be left...
Died. Sidney Buchman, 73, film producer and scenarist; following a heart attack; in Cannes, France. A top Hollywood screenwriter (The Sign of the Cross, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) and a Columbia Pictures producer, Buchman was blacklisted after admitting to a congressional committee in 1951 that he had once been a Communist. He returned to film work in the 1960s serving as one of the writers on the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton epic, Cleopatra, and later produced and wrote the film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's bitchy bestseller, The Group...
...recovery was well under way, the stock market has tumbled recently. Last week the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 805, down 21 points for the week. Bond prices also dipped on news of the July rise in living costs, and interest rates continued to creep upward-a sign that lenders, too, expect inflation to remain rampant and are determined to extract a higher price for their money...
...consumers, perhaps the most visible sign of inflation during the next few months will be gasoline prices. Although the Administration is sticking by its earlier prediction that decontrol of oil prices would trigger only about a 3?-per-gal. rise, some other estimates keep coming in higher. Representative John D. Dingell, chairman of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee's Energy and Power Subcommittee, calculates that gasoline prices could skyrocket to 90? per gal. Most experts doubt that the petroleum retailers will boost prices anywhere near that much, since the summer driving season will soon be over and demand...