Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LIKE NO MAGAZINE YOU HAVE EVER READ BEFORE, enthused the Saturday Evening Post in full-page ads introducing the face lifting that was prescribed to cure its ten-year slump in ad linage. Most readers are not likely to be so certain: the new magazine reads like the old Post. The fiction is the same tug-at-the-heartstrings stuff. Nonfiction will be "weeks, months, even years ahead of press coverage," says the Post; yet the new issue explores mainly old press favorites: ex-Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, Broadway Producer David Merrick, the "young widow." the "new" Japan. Only...
...back on his career as prodigy, Ricci feels that he was only going through the motions: "I don't care what they say about how beautifully a child plays; the child himself does not know what he's doing." Today Ricci feels that he went into a slump in his early teens. One trouble, he thinks, is that "as a child you have no inhibitions-you just do it. As you grow older, it's harder to be natural." Ricci was almost 20 before he learned to be natural once more...
...fans, and sympathetic local sportswriters was slightly thicker than the city's smog. But in the Los Angeles Times, Sports Columnist James Murray could regard the home team's travail with wry humor. "What was happening to the Dodgers," wrote Murray, "could only be described as a slump if you think of what happened to General Custer as a slump. I have seen happier people on the end of a rope than the Dodgers on the bus ride home. The players even cursed in whispers...
Below Capacity. Why is interest holding steady? Part of the reason is that the cost of borrowing held firm through most of the slump, is now higher than it was during the recovery year of 1955 and about as high as in recovery 1959 (see chart). Another reason is that many influential figures in the Kennedy Administration, led by Presidential Economic Adviser Walter Heller, favor the principle of "easy money" and have won at least limited concessions from the more cautious Federal Reserve Board chairman, William McChesney Martin. The Fed has not only held its discount rate at 3% since...
...snapping back from their sharpest slump, aluminum makers have learned many a hard lesson-most notably that their days of growth by quantum leaps are behind them. Says Vice President Howard Holmes of Kaiser Aluminum: "The future looks good, but it's going to be tougher for our industry to grow. We're going to have to spend more for research and promotion to build acceptance of new products. The plums have pretty well fallen off the tree...