Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across the Lowu railroad bridge into Communist China one morning last week bustled the everyday traffic from Hong Kong: pongee-clad farmers hauling produce, old women bent double under sacks of flour, visitors with gifts for relatives on the mainland. By mid-morning 200 travelers had crossed the frontier, and one of them was carrying a lethal parcel. Then, as the line shuffled through Red China's wooden customs shed, a powerful blast splintered the building, killed an inspector and a woman traveler, injured 27 others...
...Bent. The cold fiscal facts of club life are laid out in a financial study of 50 city clubs published this month by the New York accounting firm of Harris, Kerr, Forster & Co. Its gist: city-club expenses are steadily increasing while income is decreasing. In 1961-62 the total revenues of the 50 clubs were $52.1 million-down $170,000 from the preceding year-while operating costs were up $259,000 over a year ago. Compared with 1952-53, city-club revenues are 26% higher, but operating costs have risen...
...Academy and a longtime member of Philadelphia's century-old Union League Club: "These days you won't find 15 men in the League's card, billiard or game rooms, or the libraries on any one night, and the ones that are there are old and bent. Thirty or forty years ago the place was jumping every night...
Just seven miles away, off rocky Point Judith last week, the Aussie challenger was in action too-racing against her 23-year-old trial horse, Vim. No spectator fleet dogged Gretel's wake, but day after day the crews bent to their tasks under the calculating gaze of their own, one-man selection committee, the man they call "Big Daddy": Sir Frank Packer, 55, newspaper publisher, millionaire sportsman, and boss of the Down Under syndicate that has poured $700,000 into the white-hulled Aussie challenger. Last week Packer did not even take time...
...covered with a plastic film one three-thousandth of an inch thick. As it took shape in a hangar, Puffin's fuselage grew to 20 ft., its wings spread out for 84 ft. Practicing in the cockpit, Wimpenny took the classic pose of a racing cyclist-body bent forward, hands on a low-mounted handle...