Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...villain was Mom and, by extension, women in general. From novels to movies and musicals, the case history dominated the scene. Sooner or later there had to be a flashback to some childhood trauma, and its explanation (unloving mother, weak father, hateful sibling, stolen Teddy bear) became as de rigueur as the revelation scene at the end of a detective novel in which the mastermind explains who done...
Lights are burning late at No. 15963 Valleywood Road in Sherman Oaks, Calif. From the study, overlooking a kidney-shaped swimming pool, comes the whir of a movie projector. Hunched over the L-shaped desk, his size-50 jacket slung carelessly on the floor, a bespectacled bear of a man scribbles furiously on a note pad. It is some time between midnight and 4 a.m., the hours that James Thompson Prothro Jr. calls his "thinking hours." It could be chess that Tommy Prothro is thinking about: he is a tournament champion. Or bridge: he collects master points. Or business...
...time of Viet Nam, the Red Guards, LSD and a bear market, it may come as some surprise to learn that somebody out there is worried about the whooping crane. Well, somebody has to worry. Nobody cared enough about the great auk and the passenger pigeon, and look what happened to them...
Died. George P. Vierheller, 84, director of the St. Louis Zoo from 1922 to 1962, a latter-day Noah who transformed his domain from a dreary bar-and-cage animal prison into a bright parkland with moated outdoor bear pits (an idea imported from Germany), sunlit monkey houses and aviaries, and circus-style animal acts, all of which set a new style for zoos in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...
...fortune has gone out of short selling-largely because of the Government's stern bans against the bear raids of old-but it is still an important, confusing and controversial factor in the stock market. Last week the New York Stock Exchange reported that short interest in the month ended Sept. 15 jumped by 708,000 shares, to an alltime high of 12,091,000 shares. Though that represented only 0.1% of all shares on the Big Board, it was the eleventh rise in the past 13 months and put the short interest 50% higher than a year...