Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough for the humblest Spanish peasant to appreciate. His anguish is mirrored in the lines that crisscross the face of his 1938 Self-Portrait. "I'd like," he wrote, "to try my hand at sculpture, pottery, engraving and, by means of painting of another kind, to get in closer contact with the masses, whom I have always kept in mind...
...world's policemen," said Humphrey, echoing what is fast becoming the year's obligatory political cliché. He emphasized reconciliation with Russia and closer ties with Europe...
Bunko Anyway. Reaching out for the newly affluent swinging set closer to home, the dowager of Knightsbridge underwent some startling changes during the last couple of years. They seem to have paid off. "The illusion that Harrods' customers were all duchesses was always bunko anyway," says a titled store executive. Mahogany displays were painted a brilliant cerise, truly modern furniture was stocked next to the Louis XV and Chippendale. But foremost among efforts to rejuvenate itself is the store's "Way In" boutique, where the Rolling Stones belt out background music. Since it opened last year, customers spent...
Things smell more in the heat. The heat holds the smell in, brings it closer to you. You can smell the garbage rotting in the sun next door. And when you walk by Briggs & Briggs there is some dog crap all wet in the sidewalk and it smells up half a block and it smells up your shoes...
Sales for the fiscal year were up 6.3%, to $734,365,000. The total brought Gookin closer to his heart's desire of a billion-dollar 1972 sales year for Heinz. More significantly, earnings were up 17%, to $25,274,000; of that total, 43% came from the domestic side of Heinz's operation. Wall Street liked the flavor; Heinz stock that was selling in the 20s two years ago was up last week to almost...