Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growth and check inflation. The trouble is that while both aims are laudable in theory, they do not necessarily go together. In trying to achieve both of them at the same time, and in using methods that have alarmed businessmen, the President may have thrust himself into an economic box...
Unlike the Tigers, who can still hope that key players in crippling slumps will come around, the ninth place Red Sox have no future. In a league much-improved by this year's amazing crop of rookies. Boston's much ballyhooed youth movement appears to have assured the box of at least ten years of mediocrity...
...areas where radio or newspapers already bring the results first, we try to concentrate on the turning points of important trends, or to single out standout performances. For example, in this week's news: In Art, we report how the 30-year dominance of the glass box building came under attack, not by just a few iconoclastic critics, but by a significant number of U.S. architects at their annual convention in Dallas, where they cheered some viable variants. And another changing trend, long foreseen-the shift away from abstract expressionism in painting-became more visible. Manhattan's Museum...
Jacobs denied that Billie Sol bought any clothing for him. The only gifts he ever accepted from Estes, he said, were two rides in Estes' private plane, several meals, a box of cigars and a 5-lb. bag of pecans. Yes, Billie Sol did go into Neiman-Marcus with him, Jacobs admitted, but "I had my own money." Jacobs resigned his post anyway. Maybe he knew it would be hard for people to believe that a $6,500-a-year Government official would be carrying around $1,433.20 in cash to spend for clothing...
...sick of the glass box. For the last 30 years we have abandoned basic architectural precepts, such as light and shadow and depth and beauty," San Francisco's S. Robert Anshen told the architects. "When men lived in caves," said William W. Caudill of Houston, "they poked holes in them to let air in and smoke out. The holes got bigger and bigger. Now the holes have eaten up the box." Others added that the all-window building has created still unsolved problems of glare and temperature control...