Word: faceliftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past four years, the Harvard sports scene has undergone a facelift. Nothing drastic, mind you, but enough alterations have been made to make today's scene far different from the one I first encountered as a freshman, three and a half years ago. The headline-grabbing sports, football and hockey, have multi-flexed their way into mediocrity the past two years, and every indication points to them staying there for at least a while. Squash hasn't won a national championship in two years, which is like a ten-year drought for anyone else, swimming and baseball are only...
...traffic problem. Today, monuments to his administration stand everywhere: a nearly completed arch, designed by the late Eero Saarinen, symbolizing the city's history as a gateway to the West; an $89 million sports stadium rising from what was once Skid Row; 602 city blocks undergoing a facelift...
...that bills itself "for young adults." Said each of the ads: "Some girls are too old for Redbook. 18 to 34: These are the Redbook Years." In the accompanying cartoons. Under 34 dreamed of shopping sprees, Over 34 was a tight-pursed dowager just this side of her next facelift...
Getting a Facelift. Hotels, receiving reservation requests at a 10,000-a-week clip, were already nearly sold out for the three summer months. By last week advance sales of tickets had topped $700,000. In the shadow of Queen Anne Hill, on a 74-acre tract of land, fair buildings were rising dramatically. For Seattle, the experience was like that of the perennial wallflower who suddenly finds herself the belle of the ball. The town was mostly pleased, but partly dazed-and just a mite suspicious. There was dark talk about the girlie shows that are planned. Local businessmen...
...Facelift for Mammon. The Sunday paper was originally conceived as only a seventh edition of the daily press. Fiercely attacked by clergymen in its formative years-they considered it a Mammon-like rival of the pulpit-it did not succeed in establishing itself until the Civil War generated a ravenous public appetite for news and gave it permanent root. But not until Joseph Pulitzer, already the successful publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, arrived in New York in 1883 did the Sunday paper begin sprouting into the giant it is today. With sensational features, comic strips, four-color illustrations...