Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shows 75% of the sample "dissatisfied" with Viet Nam developments-a 21% rise in a year-and a mere 13% "satisfied." California Psephologist Don Muchmore reports a similar trend...
Some summer bandsmen are professionals, but others are amateurs who trade briefcases and lunch buckets for trumpets and sousaphones. The trend is noticeable in several parts of the country, but is especially strong in New England, where Chatham, Mass., draws audiences from Boston and beyond. Winsted, Conn., Rotarians raised $6,000 to build a new bandstand; Lions in Winchester, Mass., pledged their 50-member band a new shell. Boston's new Prudential Center plaza has gingham-covered tables, straw boaters on the light globes and its own Gazebo Band...
...beige crepe with a subdued use of beads. It is, says one, "the Ford of our collection"-something everyone will want. Also interesting: a Patou white worsted dress that is close to the body, with a flared skirt and four rows of horizontal stitching; it is considered the best trend indicator. "It's the princess line all over again," says a buyer. Like Ohrbach's, Alexander's was active in the Italian mar ket too. It will display a stunning brown wool trench coat by Heinz Riva with an oversize paper-clip belt ("Everything is belted this...
Some Government economists see the trend as a new vice rather than an old virtue. Commerce Department Economist Louis Paradiso looks for a gradual return to normal, notes hopefully that "there never has been a prolonged high rate of savings." But that just may be the way things go in Washington. Walter Hoadley, the Bank of America's chief economist, finds nothing "alarming" in the current tightfistedness. "People are cleaning up their budgets," he says. "Frankly, the private sector is doing what the Government should be doing-establishing a new set of priorities for spending...
...Arthur Wiesenberger & Co., a New York Stock Exchange member firm whose founder, now 70, went into the business in 1938 after a colorful career as an author on merchandising (one of his books: Merchandising Bargain Basements). For Chicago-based Nuveen, acquiring Wiesenberger would be in line with the recent trend among municipal bond houses, which have diversified into other securities operations because of increasingly vigorous competition from commercial banks...