Word: turnabout
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Puzzling Reversal. The interest turnabout seems contradictory. The Federal Reserve Board in the first quarter expanded the nation's money supply at a 9% annual rate. Consumers are saving at a near-record clip, putting still more lendable cash into financial institutions. About a fourth of U.S. industry's plant capacity is still idle, indicating no great need for expansion funds...
...discover firsthand what it must feel like to be Dick Cavett, TIME arranged a turnabout show before an audience that had gathered to watch one of his regular programs. This time Cavett himself was the sole guest. His host was Correspondent Jesse Birnbaum, who has since become insufferably stagestruck. His report...
Three weeks earlier, in New York, Harvard beat the Aquatie Club by only three goals. When questioned about the amazing turnabout in the squad's play, sophomore captain Mike Graff explained, "We played a lot better and they were a little weaker...
...startling turnabout that should drag Ripley from his grave and send Jean Dixon into retirement, the Harvard baseball team collapsed this weekend, losing to Columbia, 7-6, on Friday, then dropping a doubleheader to the Princeton Tigers, 9-6 and 11-2, on Saturday...
...Englanders saved everything from string to scraps of cloth for patchwork quilts. In frugal foreign eyes, 20th century Americans are stupendous wasters: a people so rich that they think no more of tearing down 30-year-old skyscrapers than of tossing beer cans out car windows. Now a turnabout seems at hand. Goaded to recycle the nation's mounting garbage, individuals as well as industries have spotted new charms in old discards-cans, bottles, light bulbs. Thousands of Americans are enjoying an effort that bears the acronymic description "rejase"-"re-using junk as something else...