Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mouton regularly lists Orange Sabayon Fielding on its menu, and in Madrid, Horcher's serves chicken salad a la Temple Fielding. He has been decorated three times by the Spanish government, belongs to a royal order in Sweden, and is an honorary citizen of Amsterdam. Yet Fielding is still the cartoon image of the American supertourist?relentlessly energetic about travel but worried about getting gypped, wary of being misdirected or slighted, and rather homesick for America. So last week, when the Italian government notified Fielding that it had awarded him the Grand Cross of the Ordina al Merito della Repubblica...
...Still, the pay is good, and so are the perks. On the road, Fielding, Raff and Bones travel like triplets. They each carry three dark blue mohair suits, tailored with covered buttons and zippered pockets by Brioni of Rome. Their shirts are all of fine white oxford cloth sewn to Fielding's own design (handmade buttonholes, extra-long French cuffs) by a Majorcan shirtmaker. Their ties are regimental-striped and made in Italy. Their topcoats of blue vicuÑa are cut by English House in Copenhagen. Even their techniques are triplicate...
WITH considerable unhappiness, moneymen still vividly recall the episode in the late summer of 1966 that came to be known as "the credit crunch." Restricting the nation's money supply in order to slow a rapid price rise, the Federal Reserve Board acted so decisively that the financial markets reacted with hysteria. Interest rates rose rapidly, the Dow Jones average sank 25%, and many lenders were so short of funds that it became extraordinarily tough for corporations to borrow...
...fear of inflation has been heightened by the enormous increase in the country's financial reserves. During the latest money crisis last month, $4¼ billion in francs, pounds, dollars and other foreign funds flowed into Germany. As of last week, almost $3 billion of it was still there. The influx has not only overinflated Germany's money supply but depressed the monetary reserves of France and Britain...
...April 1968. A deluge of foreign orders 41% higher than a year ago is pushing Germany's industrial machine toward the limits of capacity. "We cannot go much further," says Werner Meyer, director of Blaupunkt, the Bosch radio and television subsidiary. "We work on Saturdays and overtime, and still deliveries are months behind schedule...