Word: belle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting exclusively for the young Nabokov, "lent an ember to my bicycle bell." Ben, Dan, Sam and Ned, the "wan-faced, big-limbed, silent nitwits" encountered in the English grammars that he mastered before Russian, "now drift with a slow-motioned slouch across the remotest backdrop of my memory." On the Nord-Express, "I saw a city, with its toylike trams, linden trees and brick walls, enter the compartment, hobnob with the mirrors, and fill to the brim the windows on the corridor side." A telephone number rises from the welter of years: "What would happen...
Northeastern gave the Crimson quite a battle in the team's first meeting at the Boston Arena Christmas Tournament. Jimmy Bell's skaters led, 4-1, before finally succumbing in overtime...
...wearing them all day skiing, are switching to skirts, some of them mini, more of them of the long, hostess variety. Turtleneck T shirts are In, but they must be made of synthetics, since cotton is very Out, even for skiing. Tom Jones shirts and hip-huggers are In; bell bottoms are Out. Furs, from mink and leopard to lynx and baby seal, are big in coats, hats and even skirts. Suede boots, fur boots, climbing boots and mod boots are In; so are tennis shoes...
...ranked U.S. corporation, has assets of $32.8 billion and is as conservative in management practices as it is about money matters. Promotions are made within the pecking order, and Mother Bell rarely detours from the regular line of succession to fill an executive-suite vacancy in the headquarters at Manhattan's 195 Broadway. Thus it was hardly a surprise when A.T. & T. directors last week picked President H. I. (for Haakon Ingolf) Romnes, 59, to replace Chairman and Chief Executive Frederick R. Kappel (TIME cover, May 29, 1964), who reaches the mandatory retirement age of 65 next month...
...electrical-engineering graduate of the University of Wisconsin ('28), Romnes climbed poles as a lineman in summer to earn tuition, began full-time work after graduation as a Bell Laboratories researcher, still holds six patents for his work on telephone circuits. He later went to the Long Lines Department, dealt with local problems as chief engineer for Illinois Bell Telephone, got manufacturing experience as president of Western Electric, and learned finance and administration as a vice president, vice chairman and finally president of the parent company...