Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Worth a Damn...
Columbia's outstanding swimmer is Bill Damn, a 200- and 500-yard freestyler. In the 200-yd event, however, his best time of 1:54 is well above Crimson sophomore Shrout's average time...
...Living. Looking back, Rubinstein realizes now what a pitiable thing it was to try to snuff out his life on that day nearly 60 years ago. "When I went out into the street," he recalls, "I came back from death. I was reborn. I suddenly realized what a damn fool I had made of myself. There were people moving through the street, dogs were running around, flowers were growing in a little park?it was a wonderful, divine show. I learned then that happiness is not smiling or having money or being in good health, although those are conditions worth...
Trying to preserve the value of the pound is a frustrating and sometimes exasperating task. Noting that British unions continue to make inflationary demands while management clings to ancient inefficiencies, Prime Minister Harold Wilson recently accused Britons of "sheer damn laziness," demanded of both sides "a full day's work for a full day's pay." But despite Wilson's exhortations and despite his government's voluntary "prices and incomes policy," which aims at limiting wage escalation to 3.5% annually, wages last year jumped by 8% while prices rose by 4.5%. Productivity increased only...
Cross-Pollination. What it all amounts to, says Director Peter Hall, with only slight understatement, is "a tremendous explosion in the British theater." Never has the theater there been, as Peter O'Toole says, so "damn healthy." "It is," agrees Claire Bloom, "the most exciting theater in the world"-as the following color pages show. Fifty-one productions are thriving in the London West End and off-West End. Two government-subsidized groups, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theater, are turning away customers, and almost any provincial town worth its name has its own repertory company playing...