Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Anne Klein, 51, trend-setting designer of women's fashions famed for bringing sophistication to casual clothes; of pneumonia following a virus infection; in Manhattan. Petite and canny, Klein rose to prominence by injecting a new elegance into the traditionally cutesie junior-size dresses. She later broadened her scope to include everything from sweaters to shoes...
...Items. That trend is not all bad for retailers. Mail-order sales of Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and other catalogue houses are surging as more energy-conscious shoppers let their fingers do the traveling. Some store chains report that their long-languishing downtown branches are jammed with customers unwilling to motor to far-flung suburban shopping centers. Department stores report strong sales of books, games, television sets and other aids to a quiet evening at home. Other hot items include furniture, household hardware, seeds and garden supplies, and backyard swimming pools. "People are paying more attention to their homes," explains...
...time when many interest rates have dropped a bit from their 1973 peaks is moot. Donald Pitti, president of Wiesenberger Services Inc., which among other things publishes analyses of mutual-fund investment records, believes that the new funds are "a product of high interest rates and not a major trend." But they represent a rare fresh idea in the management of small investments-and some strong potential competition for the banking business and the stock market...
...blockbuster has, for the last dozen years or so, been cherished as the Miracle Aid cure for an ailing film industry and, for the moment at least, Paramount is rapidly becoming known as blockbuster-broker No. 1. In the way that one picture often constitutes a Hollywood trend, two can make a reputation, and Paramount's current supremacy is based on a pair of recent box office-boggling successes: Love Story (which netted more than $84 million) and The Godfather ($145 million...
...even if they were not, they'd miss the essential point. Presidents need not be intellectuals. They should be decent people, and it's on these grounds that Ford has apparently won widespread popularity. In fact, dismayed by the indictments of most of President Nixon's top aides, some trend-setters have been hailing Ford as the best idea since the Model T. "GOP Begins to Rally Around Ford; Growing Crowds Hail New Boldness," said the headline in yesterday's New York Times. Massachusetts Governor Francis W. Sargent was the latest liberal politico to announce that the country would...