Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yesenin-Volpin's pessimism and rebelliousness come naturally. His father, the great Russian village poet, Sergei Yesenin, was an ardent early Bolshevik, whose increasing disillusion with Communism was accompanied by a marriage to Dancer Isadora Duncan and a slide into alcoholic and narcotic torpor. His bastard son, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, was the result of a liaison with a Russian writer-translator, Nadezhda Volpin. Shortly after his son's birth, Yesenin slashed his wrists in a Leningrad hotel, wrote his last poem in his blood, then hanged himself...
Bolstered by the knowledge that their customers of record 1959 will soon be back in the market for new cars,* foreign car importers confidently assert that their slide has ended, predict that their 1962 sales will bounce back up to 400,000. But many of the 30-odd foreign makes that flourished in the U.S. in 1959 have been all but driven from the field. Only about a dozen foreign manufacturers, with lean, battle-hardened sales organizations, are expected to make money next year in the U.S. market...
...took over Pontiac in 1956 when it was looked on as a car good only for maiden aunts. Knudsen ripped off Pontiac's traditional chrome streaks, pepped up its engine and gave it gimmick features ("wide track." split grille). Result: while other medium-priced cars continued to slide, Pontiac jumped from sixth place in sales into a fight with Rambler for third. Knudsen's move to Chevy will give G.M. kingmakers a chance to measure him with the same yardstick they held up to Cole...
Pointing Up. Since the economy started up last winter, both of these indicators have moved in a favorable direction every month except one-September (see chart). September's unfavorable turn was due to a slide in industrial production that most economists regard as a temporary pause caused in large part by the auto strike and Hurricane Carla. The September pause did not upset Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, who last week pointed ebulliently to the yellow-bound first issue of Business Cycle Develop ments and said: "The economy as reflected here moved up briskly during the first six months...
...utilities and railroad commissioner before President Eisenhower appointed him to CAB in 1959. "I don't want to play God," says Democrat Boyd, "but CAB cannot maintain a position of classic detachment. I do not want my administration to be remembered as the one that let the airlines slide into as much trouble as the railroads are in." Boyd told the airline executives flatly: "We have all got to start doing a better job." No one could disagree; the trunk lines have already lost $17 million so far this year, may lose as much as $22 million before year...