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...first place. Yet the current high rate of the dollar means that prosperous American tourists can fly more, see more, do more and buy much more than ever before. The State Department expects to issue 5 million passports this year, 6% more than last year. How long this boom will last is anybody's guess, but for now Americans are simply grabbing their strong dollars and taking...
This section of the boom, which seems more than a little vindictive, tells of cheap Christmas presents (a butler was given his choice between blue or brown handkerchief), low wages, and enormous clothing expenses. The staff quarters in the family's private homes are woefully underfurnished; only at Buckingham Palace, where the government pays the bills, do the servants receive heat...
Long before the "running boom" boomed, Boston was obsessed with its Marathon. It still...
WrestleMania? The term is an understatement for an attraction now enjoying its biggest boom ever. Four wrestling shows, all produced by the W.W.F., are among the top ten programs on cable TV. NBC will present Saturday Night's Main Event, the pilot for a possible monthly series, in its Saturday Night Live slot May 11. Three videocassettes, including one on the Hulkster, are scheduled to hit the stores next month. There are Hulk Hogan action dolls, T shirts and sweatbands. Propelled by Hogan and Lauper, who last year brought her rock-'em sock-'em glamour to the "sport," wrestling...
...market in Moscow and other cities, many Soviet teens manage to spend their spare rubles on imported designer jeans or bootleg tapes of Michael Jackson and Boy George. But Soviet youth have so far missed out completely on one craze that is sweeping much of the West: the computer boom. Most Soviet teens have never touched a personal computer, much less spent hours hacking away happily at a keyboard...