Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assistant White House press secretary, is now market-promotions manager for the Ballantine beer outfit. Another former press aide, Malcolm Kilduff, whose chief claim to fame is that he announced Kennedy's death to the press in Dallas, is in the $50,000-a-year bracket as a partner in a Washington public relations firm...
...outside the Pentagon's "war room," lays out each episode. Five junior writers then turn their scenarios into finished scripts. None of the eight writers is over 35; only two earn less than $1,000 a week. Expensive Trappings. But they have to work to stay in that bracket. The cameras grind away on the back lot at 20th Century-Fox in Hollywood filming three half-hour episodes a week-more than the average movie crew shoots in a month. Thus the production is less polished than a feature film and sometimes barely distinguishable from the commercials Nevertheless, should...
...individual recipients, $8 for couples-but they will channel $1.2 billion more into the economy this year and $117 million a month thereafter. Because the increases are retroactive to Jan. 1, each recipient will collect eight months of bonus in one swoop-amounting among couples in the top bracket to a lump-sum extra of $492. Though the average American habitually spends 93% of his income and saves the rest, federal economists expect that some 95% of the social security bonuses will quickly be spent, chiefly on food, clothing, recreation, services and travel. Reason: couples over 65 have an average...
...mutual-fund holders increased 48% , to 3,200,000. Reflecting the nation's westward shift, California replaced New York as the state with the largest number of shareholders. Cities of under 25,000 population have the fastest-growing number of shareholders, minors are the fastest-growing age bracket in stock ownership (total: 1,280,000 owners), and housewives are the largest group (51% of all stockowners are women). Commenting on these figures, Stock Exchange President Keith Funston said that most of the stockholders are not speculators but rather people who buy stock and hold on to it, thus riding...
...Barber's statistics came from a study conducted in Evanston, Ill., after ten years of fluoridating its water. Among Evanston children in the 6-to-8 age bracket, said Dr. Barber, malocclusions were down 20%, while those in the 12-to-14 group had 17% fewer bad bites than teen-agers in nonfluoridated communities. Fluorides, explained Dr. Barber, reduce tooth decay in the important first permanent molars; early loss of these teeth may lead to bite abnormalities and eventual braces or similar tooth-straightening appliances...