Word: boom
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...autumn in New York." On Fifth Avenue an unending parade of shoppers canvassed the world's most elegant bazaar. The Broadway marquees touted yet another hectic season. From the Battery to The Bronx, the thud of dynamite and the roar of drills accompanied probably the greatest construction boom in the history of cities. No other metropolis in the world offered its inhabitants greater hope of material success or a wider variety of cultural rewards. Yet for all its dynamism and glamour, New York City, day by day, little by little, was sliding toward chaos. "The question now," said...
...Olympics always present a surpassing spectacle, and Mexico City last week greeted the greatest gathering of athletes in history; 7,226 competitors from 119 nations. In Olympic Stadium, to the boom of cannon salutes and the blare of bands, the teams marched in review before Mexico's President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz and 80,000 cheering spectators. As always, the parade was led by the Greek team and wound up by the host nation. The formation was familiar, but this year its colors were uncommonly bright. The Mexicans were dazzling in white. There were green-gowned Nigerians and Australian girls...
...Time. Things can also go wrong, of course. Brunswick and AMF, for example, profited from the bowling boom in the '50s only to suffer later from competition from other pastimes. Still, dividends from the fun-and-games business do not always come in cash. "This is toy time," says Herbert J. Siegel, president of Chris-Craft. "If a guy can justify an acquisition by getting into the 'leisure time' market, he can have a good time." As Siegel himself undoubtedly does. He was chairman of Baldwin-Montrose Chemical Co. until last January, when, in a prelude...
Root Problems. Viet Nam overshadowed hearings on the rest of the platform. Testimony was heard from some 300 witnesses, including such disparate groups as the American Latvian Association and the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. Though the 110-mem ber Platform Committee was preparing to draft a stern "law-and-order" plank in hopes of neutralizing a similarly tough G.O.P. statement, Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned against allowing the phrase to become a slogan for repression...
Annie is played by Joanna Shimkus, a Canadian who was last misused in the Burtons' bomb Boom! (TIME, May 31). Here, she controls her role with an even poignancy and an odd beauty. Though Paxinou's part is minuscule, her gravitational field exerts enough force to draw every scene toward her. But despite Zita's undoubted appeal to dreamy young girls, an interesting young star and a grand old pro are not enough to support yet another tremulous version of the girl-in-a-woman's-body theme. Director Robert Enrico tries to lend his slender...