Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia University philosophy major, 24-year-old Julie Motz, has set herself up in business making 20-minute-long, 16-mm. BioPix. For $500, she will follow her subject (a Texas brewery president, say, or a New Jersey American Legionnaire), shooting candidly and in color from dawn to dusk. So far she has been banned only from Manhattan's "21" Club ("It bothered the other customers"), had to sneak in shots at the Forum of the Twelve Caesars after hours...
...dangers, the satisfactions continue to lure traffic watchers aloft. "This is one job where you can see the results of your work," says Kevin O'Keefe of Boston's WHDH. "At dusk, when I suggest that motorists turn their lights on, it looks like a Christmas tree lighting up down there...
...something on his own and the attractive offer from Newsday (reportedly $100,000 a year, no stock, but full editorial control of the paper when Guggenheim dies). One weekend, the two rambled together over Johnson's Texas ranch for several hours; when they returned to the house at dusk, the President told Moyers that he should take the job. Moyers still brooded about his departure; just a day or so before he announced his decision, he offered to stay, but Johnson refused to consider this. In New York, Moyers, who gets along well with Bobby Kennedy, will undoubtedly have...
...Eastern Seaboard, airline pilots flying north at dusk from Washington to Boston look down on a coruscating corridor of light, an unbroken, 450-mile-long conglomeration of 37 million Americans that is referred to by demographers as "the Eastern Megalopolis." Another area is growing even faster, and will ultimately pose bigger problems. This is the potential "Great Lakes Megalopolis," which will soon stretch without interruption from Pittsburgh to Chicago, by the year 2000 will contain a population of 45 million. Fortunately, in the opinion of City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis, the great heartland megalopolis has a natural focus and headquarters...
...Johannesburg dusk, golden with light reflected from the mine dumps surrounding the city, the streets were jammed with well-dressed crowds on their way to the bioscope (movies), restaurants, cafés and espresso bars. Giant construction cranes hovered over the beginnings of three new skyscrapers, the tallest of which will have 51 floors. The Johannesburg stock exchange hit a new high, and the city was in the throes of a water shortage, limiting the hours that home owners could water their lawns...