Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voting for themselves. All the principal protagonists in Viet Nam's long agony knew it: the government, striving to get as many voters as possible to the polls; the Viet Cong, hoping that their threats and grenades might frustrate the whole thing; the Buddhists, boy cotting the ballot box because it could not be stuffed to their specifications; and the U.S., standing aloof to let the Vietnamese speak for themselves...
...drums for a turnout. Up and down Viet Nam, provincial drama teams mixed dragon dances with information skits and election slogans spreading the word. Sample slogan: "Voting is an honor of a citizen in an independent country." On TV, announcers folded the ballot, and dropped it into a box. Caravans of sound trucks rolled through smaller towns, and Radio Viet Nam belted out songs with lyrics like, "If we want to win the war, we must go to vote." As campaign lyrics go, it was remarkably close to the truth...
...wasn't as if Dad couldn't spare the dough. Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, 73, might have settled the matter out of his petty-cash box if he chose. But Gordon Getty, 32, a real estate investor, composer, poet and the youngest of his four living sons, felt compelled to file what he called "a friendly suit" against the old man, asking San Francisco's Superior Court to award him $7,000,000 as his share of the stock dividends accumulated by a trust fund that J. Paul's mother, Sarah Getty, had established...
...Hoffman, 32, and Schutz, 28, comprise one of the busiest, most imaginative and most unorthodox management teams in New York. They have just wound up a highly successful month-long Mozart Festival at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall under the sponsorship of Lincoln Center. Skeptics would have considered Mozart box-office suicide during a dreary New York summer. Yet the festival presented 26 consecutive concerts featuring more than 100 orchestra, chamber and solo pieces-all without top-name performers. At a maximum of $3 a seat, Philharmonic Hall got 54,000 admissions that blossomed into 26 delighted audiences...
...comes 10:30 they don't know what to do." The first of these concerts, a program of 18th century music, sold out all 2,840 seats in Philharmonic Hall at $2 a ticket. Only 800 admissions had been bought in advance; the rest were sold from the box office on the night of the performance...