Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack, what happened to Pickles two weeks after he broke away from...
...modest crowd did not quite know what to make of this murmured confession. But it was evocative, and impressive. Shortly afterward, the session broke up; parents and students drifted away to attend the formal ceremony of awarding degrees...
...request of the senior class, Yale officials broke a 75-year-old tradition to allow a student, Class Secretary William M. Thompson Jr., to give a commencement address. Thompson, an honor student in American Studies from Richmond, announced that the class had voted overwhelmingly to dedicate its commencement to opposition to the war. In addition, he said, 143 seniors had pledged to refuse induction if drafted. "The vast majority of Yale seniors want to serve and protect their country," he said, adding that "patriotism is not dead on the college campus today." But patriotism is not "blind obedience...
Died. Robert Taylor, 57, one of the handsomest and most durable of Hollywood's leading men; of lung cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Born Spangler Arlington Brugh, Taylor broke into movies in 1934 and within three years had appeared in 15 features; his fans flocked to see him in such films as Waterloo Bridge, Bataan and Quo Vadis. In later years, Taylor won critical as well as popular acclaim for such workmanlike stints as the mental patient in 1947's High Wall. As Longtime Friend Ronald Reagan said in his eulogy: "He was more than a pretty...
Upper-Middle Income. The aptly named Costley family of Rockville, Md.-Nancy, 35, Wayne, 37, and five children aged five to ten-do not feel that they are going broke on $25,000 a year, but neither are they getting anywhere. Wayne, a vice president of Consultec, a management-consulting firm, earns $10,000 a year more than he did in 1964. "But even with steady increases in salary," he says, "I don't see any increase in buying power...