Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After edging up all spring, the U.S. cost of living has reached a record high and is expected to go higher. In June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week, the Consumer Price Index (1947-49 = 100) took its biggest monthly spurt in nearly five years-0.7% over the previous high of 115.4 reached in May (and equaled once before in October 1953)-Chief reason for the spurt: a sharp (2%) rise in food costs, partly seasonal. Said BLS Commissioner Ewan Clague, who saw no signs of inflation in the jump: the index "will probably creep up a little...
...turning point was last spring's elections, in which Communist China spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Burmese Communists win 40 seats from U Nu's ruling Socialists. "Interference of the most brazen kind," a top Burmese neutralist called it. The Burmese have also had their business disenchantments with their cynical Communist trading partners. Despite fine promises of the latest machinery and steel, all the Russians ever sent them in barter for their rice was cement-so much cement that all Rangoon could not hold it. and vast quantities of it were ruined on the docks...
...idea that is not uncommon among U.S. horse trainers. Nashua, the millionaire thoroughbred, along with many a competitor, shuns tap water, drinks only Mountain Valley Water, a bottled mineral elixir from Hot Springs, Ark. Some trainers think the spring water tastes better to horses, is good for equine kidneys. Horses are occasionally shipped to Hot Springs itself, where they can run at Oaklawn Park while taking heavy dosages on home ground...
...best-selling composer and conductor, Legrand remained virtually unknown to the buying public, partially because he was not clearly identified with any single popular school. Maurice Chevalier changed that, when he hired Legrand to conduct the orchestra on one of his series of U.S. TV Spectaculars last spring. Legrand's loose-jointed, flop-haired conducting style intrigued TV audiences, and when he returned to Paris, he was greeted by a crowd (and a batch of publicity handouts depicting him as a man who had taken the U.S. by storm). Since then, Legrand has worked an around-the-clock schedule...
...pack it away in handy-sized packing crates. ¶ In Minneapolis the Institute of Arts had on view a 21 in. bronze Monkey and Her Baby, by 74-year-old Pablo Picasso. To make his ,lonkey, Picasso took a child's toy auto for a head, car spring for a tail and a machined iron sphere for a body, shaped in the rest with clay. The end product: a heavy-footed baboon shape that rates a guffaw, yet carries over an unabashed tribute to mammalian protectiveness and love that can be enjoyed long after the laughter has subsided...