Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...car, which Galbraith donated to WGBH's fundraising drive shortly after being named "Funniest Professor of the Century" at last January's Lampoon centennial celebration, brought $19,250 for WGBH's annual fundraising auction from an anonymous buyer in New Hampshire...
Galbraith said yesterday that he has not met or spoken to the car's new owner...
...recalls. The rules weren't always strictly observed, although Brody doesn't recall any occasions when either he or any of his friends kept a woman in the dorm overnight. But, he says, "you could screw in the afternoon and that was happening a lot. We also had a car and so there was always the back seat." Trustman says his whole generation "learned to be sexually active between 6 and 8 p.m. The style was first to make love and then go out to dinner...
...fact, the men of Kaddum are mostly professionals-doctors, engineers, economists, computer technicians and businessmen-many of whom commute to work in Tel Aviv, 30 minutes away by car. At Kaddum, these self-styled pioneers have paved roads, set up a main square called gloriously "Return of a Nation Square" in Hebrew, planted flowers, built a school, a synagogue, a mikveh (ritual bath), and three workshops that produce income from metalworking, ceramics and sewing. In all there are 37 families, with 100 children. Reported Halevy: "Their eyes shine when they talk about the Promised Land: 'It is written...
...height easily within the range of top performers; the world record is 18 ft. 8¼ in., and the vaulters can pick up a tidy sum before the going gets serious. One former Olympic medalist once hinted to a shoe manufacturer that he wanted a new car. A few days later he was given the cash to pay for it. At the U.S. Olympic trials last summer, some track and field stars first ran their qualifying heats, then dashed into the stands to dicker with representatives of warring jock-shoe companies. While the athletes and the shoe companies settled...