Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Call them seers, diviners, futurists or just plain heads-up smart. The spotters are entrepreneurs of fast mind and slim purse who have, early on, discerned a social trend, a cultural drift or an economic imperative- and made it from noodle to boodle...
Died. Goddard Lieberson, 66, a musician who became the immensely successful president of Columbia Records; of cancer; in Manhattan. English-born, Lieberson started out to be a Composer, but instead went to work for Columbia in 1939, quickly gaining a reputation as a trend spotter and a man who could work with musicians. He was an early promoter of the LP and of original cast albums of shows like South Pacific and My Fair Lady; he had talked CBS into backing Lady. In developing the Columbia Masterworks series of classical music, he included contemporary composers: Prokofiev, Schönberg, Bart...
...have another new story to tell in our CINEMA section this week, the tale of a movie with such uncontrived innocence and sheer fantasy that it may start a trend in the film industry. We first heard about Star Wars from Associate Editor Gerald Clarke, who was in Los Angeles to search out SHOW BUSINESS stories. Getting word of a film that was to be given an unusual Sunday-morning preview in San Francisco, he flew north and was in the theater at 10 a.m., along with several hundred screaming children, a scattering of sci-fi film buffs and Director...
...after complex negotiations, agreed to cut back drastically their exports of color TV sets to the U.S. In the early 1970s, the Japanese share of the U.S. TV set market was about 16%. Then last year Japanese imports spurted to 2.9 million sets-38% of the market-and the trend has continued...
...companies in which the government owns shares, to British Leyland Chief Executive Alex Park. The letter spoke of a "proposed method for dealing with 'special account arrangements' " that had been "nodded through" by Varley. The note went on to mention Ryder's concern about "the escalating trend of payment to 'contract agents,' " especially in the Middle East, and included a warning that the company should not be "taken for a 'camel ride' in such dangerous territory," evidently referring to shakedowns by unscrupulous go-betweens...