Word: annually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lavender Bentley for a benefit basketball game, Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain, 29, announced that he had brooded it over and would not, after all, accept $250,000 from boxing promoters to become the world's highest pug (7 ft. 1% in.). Instead, he will accept a $55,000 annual raise, to $125,000, to remain the world's highest-salaried basketball player. After he signed his new three-year contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, Wilt thought of a good friend and bitter rival, the 6-ft. 10-in. pillar of the Boston Celtics. Chuckled the Stilt: "I hope...
Edward Albee will be making his fourth annual on-Broadway appearance with Malcolm, a dramatization of Novelist James Purdy's black comedy tracking a 15-year-old's picaresque trail to destruction. Tennessee Williams will be represented by Slapstick Tragedy, which he calls "a pair of fantastic allegories on the tragicomic subject of human existence on this risky planet...
...along at speeds up to 180 m.p.h., tossing huge rooster tails of spray 40 ft. high in their wakes. The crowds are the biggest-300,000 or more. And the prize is the richest-$10,500, plus a new car to the winner. At last week's 58th annual running of the race on Seattle's Lake Washington, the sentimental favorite was a hometown hero: Ron Musson, 36, who had won the cup for the past two years in Miss Bardahl. But his hydroplane was three years old, had not been running well since it was dropped from...
...glass car that can be adapted to both bus chassis and rails. Bigger Bites. There is, of course, another big side to the effects of welfare legislation. Higher social security payments mean bigger bites from both business and workers; the raises will cost corporations at least $2.5 billion more annually, and wage earners who make at least $550 monthly will face an annual tab of $277 instead of $174. Increased spending also creates problems for state and local governments, which in most cases must provide some funds in order to receive federal grants, and therefore will need to seek...
...June Dickson-Wright, 33, daughter of British Surgeon Arthur Dickson-Wright; on grounds of incompatibility; after eleven years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico. Died. Shirley Jackson, 45, master of seance fiction, author of The Lottery, chilling tale of a 20th century New England village's annual rite of human sacrifice, and dozens more stories and novels (Hangsaman, We Have Always Lived in the Castle) so horrific that it always surprised readers to learn that all this came from a contented wife and good-humored mother of four who could with equal facility poke gentle...