Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...none, and the privacy of the middle class is eroding rapidly. Only the very rich can afford it in these days of high-speed communication and whetted curiosity, and it is perhaps no coincidence that two of the world's richest men J. Paul Getty and Howard Hughes, with close to $1.5 billion apiece are notably fanatic about their privacy...
...Greenhouse, animal-cell injections by Niehans in Switzerland, face liftings by Rees or Converse in New York, and assorted blood aerations, breast shapings, or skin peelings. These cosmetic Sayings leave a woman pretty unsightly for a week or so. So Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post (you know, Post Toasties) Close Hutton Davies May solves the problem by inviting her doctor and three of her friends down to Palm Beach for a peeling, so they can hole up in her 115-room villa and play bridge while the scabs slough...
...looking for a job") into the old burlesque houses. His ringing voice assailed vice at hearings held by the New York City Commissioner of Licenses as well as from the pulpit of his red brick church. He helped prod New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia into closing down the strip joints and driving their operators out of town. For his campaign against "coddlers" of crime, he won plaudits from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. His activities brought fame to his church (which sometimes attracted as many as 25,000 worshipers in a day) and celebrity status...
...hall is a jungle of huge works that illustrate the razzmatazz marriage of fantasy and technology. Peter Briining's 19-ft.-wide tangle of highways flashes with lights. Robert Rauschenberg's environment is a booth with eight panels, controlled by photoelectric cells so that they open and close for the gallerygoer. For some time now, he has been tinkering with art that moves in response to the viewer...
...Close to 90% of drug addicts at federal hospitals suffer relapses once they are released. At Synanon, a privately run California halfway house for narcotics users, a combination of selfhelp, trust and group therapy has lowered the figure to as little as 20%. So successful is Synanon that five affiliates have sprung up across the U.S. Nonetheless, California Narcotic Authority agents raided Synanon's beach-front building in Santa Monica last month and removed Alyce Mae Walker, 27, and Richie Marks, 34, two of the 700 voluntary inmates...