Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a year ago and an average of $1,121 each. Their checks will range from a flat $75 for employees with six months' to a year's service up to 14 weeks' pay for 20-year veterans. Elsewhere across the U.S., year-end fiscal cheer varies from the $10 Philadelphia Electric Co. gave its 9,300 nonexecutive workers to the average of $375 that Scio Pottery Co. of Scio, Ohio, handed 1,010 workers a fortnight ago. Chicago's prospering Abbott Laboratories, the pharmaceutical makers, paid a record $1,211,000 bonus...
...last week were startled to hear the pilot announce that a strange object had appeared on the radar screen. After a moment, the pilot added that the object had landed on the wing. Just then Santa Claus burst forth from the cockpit and chortled down the aisle, dispensing good cheer to all. Santa was actually taking part in a fierce dogfight for mastery of the sky on the world's most heavily traveled aerial freeway. More than 1,800,000 passengers flew on the 347-mile corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1963, some quarter...
With their usual flare for understatement, some critics called the director of M, Fritz Lang, "th greatest of the great." He certainly belongs in the company of brilliant German directors like Wiene, Pabst, and Marnau. In any case, amidst the stultifying holiday cheer, we figured that the best reason for going to the Brattle had little to do with directors--in M, we had heard, one could see Peter Lorre murder little girls...
...Million Cheer. Thus the pilgrimage grew grand. On hand at Bombay's Santa Cruz airport to meet the Pope were India's diminutive Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, stately, goateed Moslem Vice President Zakir Hussain (wearing white Congress caps that paired with Paul's white skullcap), and the country's leading industrialist, J.R.D. Tata...
...million frantic Indians turned out to cheer the Pope, shoving and pushing wildly to get a glimpse of him. His white Lincoln Continental convertible took an hour and a half to crawl the 13 miles of highway from the airport to the Eucharistic Congress. Giant signs along the route proclaimed India's welcome: LONG LIVE THE POPE, NO GREATER LOVE HATH ANY MAN, JOY ICE CREAMS WELCOME PAUL VI. A bit jokingly, a brilliant sign all awash in white lights on Marine Drive in Bombay blared: BIRTH CONTROL CENTER FOR SEX HEALTH...