Word: spec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army Headquarters identified the men as Spec 4 Reginald R. Alderton, 22, of St. Charles, III.; and Pvt. Ted H. Price, 20, of Chesterland, Ohio. Both men said they had orders to go to Vietnam...
...stops short of outright dollar devaluation be cause some gold would remain avail able at today's price. It would also keep U.S. gold losses to a minimum. The free-market price of gold would un doubtedly soar, but that at least would promote mining and hinder future spec ulation. Raising the price of gold would require authorization from Congress, a process so subject to debate and delay and consequent speculation in gold that it is a practical impossibility. Reierson's plan, on the other hand, could be put into effect swiftly. It needs no approval by Congress...
...Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, Herbert Gold, Ray Bradbury and Ken Purdy regularly provide respectable material. This upgrading of fiction is largely due to Auguste Comte Spectorsky,* 56, who was hired from NBC by Hefner to bring some New York know-how and sophistication (a favorite Playboy word) to the magazine. "Spec" has done that and more. Last summer he hired as fiction editor Robie Macauley, who had been running the distinguished Kenyon Review. "I was familiar with Playboy," says Macauley. "The students at Kenyon read it?so did the clergy. Besides, a magazine like this matures as it goes along...
Pressures: Easing. Businessmen seek ing credit to buy other companies, spec ulate in real estate or build up inven tories are having a tough time. Few lenders anywhere seem willing to take on new corporate customers, and many now insist that companies keep hefty cash balances on deposit if they want credit. It is getting harder to keep those deposits up. Last week corporations made their quarterly income tax payments, and because of the speedup in collections this year, the bill came to $8.7 billion, nearly 17% more than last year. Partly to pay their taxes, and partly to finance...
Shofner thinks that TV is responsible. "The half-spec enables people who only need glasses for reading to go through the evening paper and watch TV at the same time without taking their glasses off," he explains. Others extol the half eye's compactness in the pocket, its lightness on the nose, the way it allows women to apply eye makeup and see what they're doing. Deep down, though, half-spec wearers know that the main reason they wear them is the expression -quizzical, benign, worldly-wise-that they impart to even the most pudding-faced peerer...