Word: cresting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Aided by 70% load factors on its new jets, which now carry 56% of United's passengers, United Air Lines made a steep climb; President William A. ("Pat") Patterson announced record third-quarter earnings of $1.97 per share, up from $1.74 a year ago. Ford, riding the compact crest, announced an extra quarterly dividend...
...Some are glorified by their faults; others are damned by their virtues," wrote La Rochefoucauld. And The Cousins, an Adult Fable which rolled in from France a while back on the crest of the "new wave," sighs that, though very sad, this is a fact of life...
...cinema has replaced the church, and people seek truth at the movies instead of at the Mass," says French Director Marcel Camus, whose sweeping ideas sometimes run a little too fast for the projector. Camus (no kin to the late writer-philosopher) reached the upper crest of the French cinema's New Wave with his Black Orpheus, a rambling but intensely poetic movie he produced by hiring amateur actors and coaxing action out of them against wild festival backgrounds in Rio de Janeiro. The formula worked so well that last fall Camus returned to Brazil, hired two professional actors...
...Souchon Recalls Early New Orleans Minstrel Days and Blues (Golden Crest). During the day Dr. Edward Souchon, 67, functions as a surgeon and as director of a New Orleans life insurance firm. At night he can be found strumming a jazz guitar with the Banjo Bums or the Six and Seven-Eighths Band. In his first LP starring role, Jazz Authority Souchon offers some rambling recollections of pre-World War I New Orleans music and provides a few choice examples-Sweet Baby Doll, Animules Ball-in a gravelly, sowbelly voice that has the unvarnished ring of authenticity...
TOOTHPASTE boost was given to Crest in unusual approval by American Dental Association, first time the standard-setting group has recognized a commercial toothpaste as "an effective decay-preventive agent...