Word: volcanoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bachelor Uncle Henry ("He was like a shy volcano, boiling and boiling but afraid of boiling over") antes up $10,000, and Bill gets his start in exported dyestuffs. He operates from a loft in an egg-crate factory, and his business has more downs than ups, but Bill meets a picaresque crew of characters from mad chemists to eccentric fellow entrepreneurs to weird office help...
...Critic Alain Jouffroy: "Paris once was a volcano. It is now gradually turning into a big circus." Although there are many new performers in that circus, the best acts are the work of an older generation...
Asserting (falsely) that Iraqi police had fired on crowds to break up demonstrations in favor of the U.A.R., Nasser's Middle East news agency also reported Iraq "is now on the lip of the volcano...
...Atraxin. Daiichi and competitors put up billboards at Tokyo's busiest intersections, where stalled motorists and scared-running pedestrians were urged to help themselves to "cope" by taking a pill. There was even a suggestion (eventually dropped) that similar ads be placed at railroad crossings, bridges and volcano craters, the meccas of the suicide-minded. (Several attempts to commit suicide with overdoses of tranquilizers have failed.) Tranki pills have proved especially popular with students cramming to pass the tough exams for government jobs...
...Erupting Volcano. Last week Erhard was deep in his newest battle against rising prices, brought on when the big Ruhr coal operators announced a sudden $1.20-$1.50-a-ton price rise only four days after the elections. To the coal operators' pleas that their prices were still the lowest in Europe, Erhard roared: "You have made a volcano erupt. The administration is disturbed, the government is wounded." To unionists seeking concomitant wage rises and benefits, Erhard insisted he would succeed in keeping prices down: "If you look into it, you will find that your real income is now higher...