Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estimated 45 million Japanese will flock to Shinto shrines to watch the Kagura dancing. As they approach the altars, worshipers will clap their hands (a sign of rejoicing), silently pray for divine protection, and drop some coins into the waiting coffers as they leave. Meiji shrine alone expects a minimum of 2.000,000 visitors-which is also "the physical maximum we can accommodate." says Hiroshi Taniguchi. the shrine's leading ritualist...
...Spanish Painter Antonio Tapies $20,000 a year in return for U.S. representation of their work. She also has an arrangement with three other galleries in Europe on behalf of a European abstractionist. Each dealer pays him $16,000 for the privilege of maintaining a monopoly on him. His minimum guarantee from the deal: $64,000 a year...
...Casbah, an area extending from 34th to 42nd Street between Eight and Eleventh Avenues, offers an unusual selection of Arab, Lebonese and Greek nightspots. Most of these have either a minimum or cover charge, but for a little more than a dollar you can sit at the bar of the Egyptian Gardens or the Port Said, sip ritsina and contemplate dancers through a thick veil cigarette smoke...
...Eliminate the present "peril-point" clause, which sets a minimum tariff below which the domestic industry involved is held to be endangered...
...sense of economic community rather than political fear: The first undertaking is to get the United States to link itself to the Common Market by making the entire trans-Atlantic Alliance a virtual free trade area. At present, Washington is buzzing with debate over what has been called "a minimum step in that direction"--the passage of a new Trade Agreements Act (the present one expires in June) which would empower the President to make across-the-board tariff reductions in negotiations with the European Economic Community...