Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a slice of pie in the sky for everybody. Workers, who now must moonlight on second jobs to get enough to live on, were promised a six-hour workday ("this will come within ten years"). But at the 21st Party Congress three years ago, this same starry goal was promised for 1961; it was even part of Lenin's grandiose scheme of 1919. The draft plan spoke of a "fourfold increase" in meat production during the next two decades, but discreetly did not quote Moscow's own published statistics showing the slaughter rate to be increasing...
...step: something called Not Tonight Henry, a 66-minute movie which features half a dozen nude girls. Such pictures have always been produced on Hollywood's fringes, but now Fox West Coast Theaters has started handling the West Coast bookings for Henry, which is already in its 21st week in a Hollywood "art" theater, goes citywide this week (eight theaters) and nationwide soon...
...tough loss for the varsity, as every match was close and could have gone either way. Captain Fiske Warren won safely in the number one position, but Bruce Johnstone at three, and George Duffy at four, had to go to the 19th and 21st holes for their respective victories...
Without Pity. A subsequent trip was an even greater disaster than the first. In 1947 he was invited to serve on an international committee of architects who were to design the U.N. headquarters. Setting up shop on the 21st floor of the RKO building, he threw himself into the job with his accustomed vigor; but Corbu was never a man to work with a team. From the beginning the direction of the project had been given to the more diplomatic Wallace Harrison, designer of Rockefeller Center. When the U.N. Building was finished, Corbu wrote: "A new skyscraper, which everyone calls...
...even many .300 hitters any more-only ten last year (five in each league), compared with 28 in 1950. How come? Last week in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial, 40, who owns a .335 lifetime average and is getting ready to start his 21st season, put down some of the reasons...