Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week so they can again and again walk up the shaded driveway, past rows of huge flower arrangements sent from all over the world, to the bronze plaque marking Presley's grave. They pass by at a rate of about 1,200 an hour. "Just being close makes me feel good," says Fay Matheny, 34, a factory worker from Richmond, Va. Karen Christ, 30, of Canton, Ohio, calls the ground "impressive, hallowed," and laments that people "have pulled off bark and written on tree trunks with red pens." Among the many flowers is a pink teddy bear pinned with...
...fact, Pacepa was no ordinary economic envoy. He was a lieutenant general in the Rumanian security police and a close confidant of President Nicolae Ceauşescu. He may have also been a longtime spy for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which probably spirited him out of West Germany. For the past three weeks, Pacepa has been tucked away in a CIA "safe" house near Washington, where he is presumably spilling information about Rumanian intelligence operations...
Perhaps the most menacing sign of loss of faith in the dollar is the wild gold rush that shoved the price of that indestructible metal to a close of $208.50 an ounce last week-up 25% so far this year. The boom has been primarily a dollar phenomenon. The price of gold in yen or marks has changed only slightly. But from Hong Kong to London, gold markets that once were the preserve of diehard fundamentalists are crawling with investors-corporate treasurers, money managers, individual speculators-eager to turn dollars into the metal that has always been a mystical symbol...
...chief boon for the companies has been higher productivity. Staffers are still close enough to Manhattan to run in for a Broadway play but are spared the drudgery of daily commuting. They no longer wander in late because of railroad tie-ups, and they tend to stay to clean up the day's work rather than flee at the stroke of 5 p.m. to catch the next train. Some firms have even been able to lengthen their formal work week. The Olin Corp., whose 1969 move from Manhattan to Stamford led off the exodus to Fairfield County...
...career as a photographer. Her roommate Anne Munroe (Anita Skinner) is an even more familiar type-a svelte, high-strung Wasp with ambitions to write poetry. When Anne leaves the nest to get married, her relationship with Susan starts to deteriorate. Since we never understood why they were close friends in the first place, it is impossible to care about the seemingly arbitrary squabbles that follow...