Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...conceded the head of one firm, "winds of change are blowing." Last week John Morgan & Co. dispatched swatches of material, in blues and greys, from which Senator John F. Kennedy will pick his fall suits. Another firm was making 30 suits for a Texas tycoon. Thirty Savile Row firms now have agents in the U.S., and some do 90% of their summer business with American tourists. Under pressure from such lucrative customers, most will now cut suits along slimmer American lines, and some have even consented to make drainpipe trousers devoid of "turnups" (cuffs...
...feeling that almost all U.S. allies seemed to share was the uneasy (and exaggerated) suspicion that Dwight Eisenhower-and hence U.S. foreign policy-would be in a state of drift from now until election time, and that the U.S. had already suffered a fall in prestige. French diplomats talked of "flottement" (vacillation) and the British of "vacuum." The politest way of expressing this was the London Daily Telegraph's feeling that Ike was a "consolidator," while Kennedy or Nixon would be "innovators." Under either Kennedy or Nixon, one ingredient of the Western alliance would soon be missing...
...Francisco's hungry i, Chicago's Mister Kelly's, Manhattan's Basin Street East; he is carefully monitored by fellow comedians and politicians; and his Los Angeles TV shows during the Democratic Convention made him the most entertaining voice within reach of a microphone. This fall, new territory will be opened up by Sahl when he launches a national tour, with the Lime-liters providing a folk-song counterpoint to his humor...
...facts to get at the truth, and no set of facts could be more misleading than those surrounding his birth. It occurred on May 11, 1927 in Montreal, where his father kept a tobacco shop. Although that might suggest a solid burgher background, Canadian citizenship, and perhaps a hard fall on the ice, Mort had none of these. Harry Sahl, his father, had come out of an immigrant family on New York's Lower East Side with a strong will to be a playwright. Broadway and Hollywood gave him just enough encouragement to make him sure that...
...this added up to a cheerful second-half prospect, in the eyes of Henry Clay Alexander, chairman of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. Said Alexander: "With the consumer buying as he is, and with inventories worked down further, I think there is a good chance for an improvement this fall, and that we may avoid turning in the direction of recession...