Word: club
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naively optomistic effort to create some kind of dialogue with the people at City Hall, several of the Avatar staff and two Harvard law students from the Civil-Rights-Civil-Liberties Club met with City Manager DeGuglielmo. The whole interview was a bizarre experience...
...past six years, is obsessed with detail; he shoots 9,000 ft. of film to get a usable 90 ft. He demands that his sets have a lived-in look-right down to scuff marks on the door. For a takeoff on old aviation movies for Utica Club beer, he screened the 1938 movie Test Pilot to see exactly how Clark Gable flipped back his goggles. For a series of quick shots focusing on a variety of stomachs for Alka-Seltzer, he spent ten days "interviewing abdomens," auditioned 40 belly dancers until he found one without stretch marks around...
...loss caused by such relatively hard-to-trace misuse amounts to an estimated $50 million a year, and the average is growing rapidly. Last week police in Manhattan were busy wrapping up a gang that had defrauded Diners Club of at least $350,000. The gang, which had Mafia links, had stolen hundreds of blank Diners Club cards, impressed legitimate cardholders' names on them, and sold them to various underworld figures complete with such forged subsidiary identification as driver's licenses.* Gang members then traveled, ate, and charged lavishly, using the cards. Even when they are not liable...
...Deep, a purported autobiographical account of how she and her father adventured through the Seven Seas for 17 years. The only flaws were an obvious lack of nautical knowledge and the fact that friends remembered her as a California schoolgirl. Shrugged Joan, as the Book-of-the-Month Club offered refunds: "Any damn fool can be accurate-and dull...
Since buying the Eagles four years ago, Wolman has become a sports buff, and though he owes $7,000,000 on his holding, he claims he would not sell the club for $150 million. Moreover, even while facing financial disaster, he talks of completing one last big real estate project-a $100 million "city within a city" in Camden...