Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night on the firehouse floor. The ladies of the P.T.A. serve home-cooked country ham, chicken and cake at the school. And if the guests get to roughhousing, hooting, doing clog dances and even drinking a little-why, nobody much minds. "They can run around in circles and climb a tree if they want to," says Chief Deputy Sheriff R. L. Warren. "It's all open here...
...Chrysler, the only automaker to report, had record sales of $1.7 billion (up 33% over last year's first quarter) and record earnings of $69.3 million (up a whopping 280%). A few auto suppliers also had good quarterly earnings, including B. F. Goodrich with a record 16.7% climb, Uniroyal up 26.3% and glassmaker Libbey-Owens-Ford, which had a hefty 48% increase...
...lighting has been a blanketing red or blue. Now, two spot lights flash onto the floor just ahead of the dancers (Scott Kemper, Lindsay Ann Crouse). The dancers beckon the light-dots backwards, and as the spots climb on to the backdrop, they become beach-balls, rolling along the shadows of dancers' extended arms or bouncing between the two. The spots free themselves, scurry around the room as the dancers desperately attempt to pounce back into the light now two dimensional again. This section ends, the dancers on their backs, legs pointing upwards, with the dots poised just above--inverted...
...world's gold trading, reopened after a two-week shutdown aimed at stifling the gold-buying stampede that threatened the dollar. Now the question was whether the free-market price of the metal, no longer supported by the disbanded seven-nation gold pool, would climb so far above its $35-per-oz. official monetary level as to rekindle speculative frenzies...
Somewhere in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem, a couple of detectives park their car, climb the stairs of a sleazy tenement, pull out their guns and kick in a door. A hood named Barney Benesch, in bed with a broad, is surprised but not particularly flustered; he puts on his clothes and his steel-rimmed glasses, then pulls the bedcovers off the wide-eyed, naked girl and tells her to get his jacket. As she flits across the floor, the audience's eyes follow her avidly. So do the eyes of the detectives. Wham-Benesch...