Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...18th century English furniture and a 20th century American carpet in the Charleston, W. Va., living room of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller IV. The driftwood shutters that Mrs. Parish designed for the "morning room" of Publisher John Hay Whitney's Manhattan town house signal another trend: heavy, floor-to-ceiling drapes are Out, and simpler, livelier window treatments...
...Wild Side. Floors? Wall-to-wall carpeting, once a status symbol, is giving way to area rugs, which allow polished wood floors to show handsomely, as in Decorator Anthony Hail's own San Francisco studio. Walls? The trend is away from stark, white-painted plaster and toward colors and textures. Decorator Frank Austin used burlap in Actress Polly Bergen's Beverly Hills living room; Decorator Arthur Elrod specified walnut wood and marble for Film Financier Eugene Klein's hilltop home near...
...straight-forward sentimentality is winning a surprising response from listeners who are either too young or too bored to investigate the rolling, stoned Beatles' milieu. The older boys smoke cigarettes, try a little wine now and then, nothing more. With a bit of luck, it might become a trend...
...their struggle to rise above a rundown economy, Britain's major industrial companies have moved into a flurry of mergers. Since last summer, consolidations have created Europe's largest steel company, second-largest auto producer and third-largest electrical-equipment manufacturer. Now the trend has spread into the once staid realm of banking. In the largest bank merger in Britain's history, Westminster Bank, the country's fourth largest (deposits: $4.2 billion), has just agreed to join forces with the fifth-largest, National Provincial Bank (deposits: $4.1 billion...
...United Nations made the first attempt to reverse the deadly trend by holding the first UNCTAD conference in Geneva. Diplomats from the industrial countries hoped the minor revisions in the existing trade system that conference produced would be enough to at least relieve the problem...