Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throw at the architects. The only complaint came from Ralph, Mohr's half-dachshund. In the Emmons house, with its two-story living-room windows, the second floor is a mezzanine, and the only staircase is a ship's ladder with polished brass railings. Ralph could climb up with a great deal of wheezing. But he could never get down again by himself, until once in desperation he dived like a seal off the top rung. Now he lives across the bay in Oakland, in a house where there are no ship's ladders...
...What gripped the viewer, as it did the readers of the original LIFE story, was Real's it-could-happen-to-you helplessness at the hands of strangers: the well-intentioned conductor who let him off the train at a deserted station where he faced a seemingly endless climb to reach the street, a calloused cop who thought that Beal was drunk, not sick, and finally the cold ministrations of the hospital staff. But Beal's own remarkable performance told most of the story: his tautened body and hanging jaw gave an eerie impression of the tempests raging...
...that, but the resouceful type knows otherwise--he can get along anyway. Take sex, for instance. Adams House, of course. A beehive with trapdoors. The Gettysburg of the war of the sexes. The Casbah. Well, if you can't dress your girl in khakis and a raincoat, or climb out a street floor window, then you don't deserve even the concessions we've been able to get for you (necking from four until seven on weekdays, until eight on Friday and Sundays, and until eleven on Saturday, except when there are house dances, when you can't neck...
...automation will displace some workers, in the long run the U.S. economic problem will not be unemployment but how to stretch the U.S. labor force enough to keep up with a population growth of 3% yearly and a standard of living that grows much faster. With every new production climb will come new demands for shorter hours, more leisure time. Once automation hits its full stride, the 30-hour week and the three-day weekend will not be far behind...
Next morning one of the prisoners managed to open a window and climb out. When the guards soon afterwards opened the door to the hell hole, 194 were dead inside...