Word: behemoth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of the new Schaap books off the presses (published last week) is Jerry Kramer's Farewell to Football, a sort of Son-of-Instant-Replay that brings Kramer fans up to date on the articulate behemoth's final (1968) season, his biography and his future plans. Next (mid-October) will come The Year the Mets Lost Last Place, a 75,000-word treatise put together by Schaap and Newsweek Editor Paul D. Zimmerman in six weeks during July and August. It will be followed by I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow . . . 'Cause I Get Better...
...Francisco's Levi Strauss & Co. is something of an anomaly. It is a privately owned, family-controlled company that has become successful almost entirely by internal expansion. Just how successful became known only last week. Issuing the first public financial report in its 119-year history, the behemoth of blue jeans announced that it earned $12.1 million in 1968 on sales of $196.8 million. That record makes it one of the nation's half-dozen biggest apparel manufacturers...
...course, politics and history have little to do with a simple, slightly offbeat excursion to Iceland. But for the two young poets the laws of metaphor applied. The ancient island democracy was a place where "Ravens from their walls of shale/Cruise around the rotting whale." Europe was the beached behemoth and the ravens, the Blackshirts and the SS. Out of their few weeks spent getting saddle sores on bad-tempered Icelandic ponies or in rattletrap buses on boulder-paved roads, eating terrible meals of smoked mutton in smokier hovels, Auden and MacNeice re-created an odd and magical journey compounded...
...mergers and government bureaucracy expands, the individual is left with little control over how he can make a living, where he can live, for what ends he will work, or where he can take his complaints to be heard. Government must moderate technology's effects without itself becoming a behemoth...
...Miami. In such metropolitan areas as Boston, Atlanta, Houston and front-running Dallas, more apartments are now going up than one-family houses. That condition has long prevailed in New York City, whose prosaic brick or concrete residential towers command attention mostly by sheer size. The current behemoth is Co-Op City, a 15,400-apartment complex now rising on the site of a former swamp in The Bronx. Both in and out of New York, the quality of construction often leaves something to be desired; many builders admit that noise traveling through thin walls is a main source...