Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...create the anti-poverty program and who will serve Nixon as a White House assistant specializing in urban problems, is highly critical of the way the present setup works. In a book to be published this winter, Moynihan calls the current Administration's approach "sloppy" and misguided (see box, page...
Barbara Jane was found at week's end when the kidnapers telephoned the FBI and said that she could be located in a wooded area some 20 miles north east of Atlanta. The kidnapers had hidden her well. Barbara Jans had been placed in a coffinlike box which had then been buried under 18 inches of earth. Her tomb had been equipped with food, water, two flexible vent tubes which protruded above ground, a fan, and a small light which failed some hours before she was found. She had spent an estimated 80 hours underground. Still wearing...
That was before Yellow Submarine. Ostensibly a movie about the Beatles, Submarine in reality is an 87-minute melange of arty art work and allusory sight gags, which has turned into a smash hit, delighting adolescents and esthetes alike. Currently, it is second only to Funny Girl at the box office...
...knockabout years, Westermann acquired an irreverent imagination and a keen respect for craftsmanship. The Last Ray of Hope is a highly polished pair of workman's boots (he spent two weeks polishing them) set on a platform of linoleum foil and enclosed in an immaculately machined glass box. They suggest a display in the front window of some country store with a cracker barrel and iron stove in side. The title apparently has some obscure relevance in Westermann's mind to his reverence for honest workmanship. Says Westermann: "I think they are beautiful. They're comfortable...
...otherwise ordinary businessmen who play the Swiss numbers game to cheat Washington out of "tax revenues in the many millions of dollars." The various ways in which such accounts are used to avoid income taxes, said Morgenthau, "are almost as numerous as the ways of earning money" (see box next page...