Word: grander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Warmer & Grander. In Atlanta there has been an influx of young families out of the suburbs and into Ansley Park-a settlement of houses about half a century old in the center of the city. Nelson and Sara Frank and their four children have ten main rooms and four baths, plus four porches. "You have to be sort of handy with things like a plasterer's trowel," says Sara Frank. "But it's so centrally located that you can walk a block to the public library and get a book on plumbing...
...Size of Monument: It would be unfitting to erect a monument to God that is smaller than monuments already existing in Washington in recognition of mortals. Those honoring Lincoln and Washington, to cite two widely known examples, are rather large. A memorial grander than these could run into money...
Concluded Dirksen: "This is a first, a single step. It is for destiny to write the answer. It is for history to render judgment. But with consummate faith and some determination, this may be the step that can spell a grander destiny for our country and for the world...
...McCracken was understandably bitter. In four black years at the Met, he had been all but buried beneath a mountain of spear-carrier costumes. "I was pretty disappointed." he says now, "but I was determined to come back singing the great parts." Last week McCracken came back, and in grander style than most spear carriers could dream of: he sang Otello in the premiere of a lavish new Met production...
...shrugged off the boycott is Tobacco Magnate Anthony Edward Rupert, 46. To stockholders in South Africa's Rembrandt Tobacco Corp., Rupert last week reported record profits of $4,500,000 for the business year ended last June. Abroad, Rupert's empire is flourishing on an even grander scale. Rembrandt included, his growing chain of tobacco companies, which now stretches from Ireland to Malaya, last year turned a pre-tax profit of $23.8 million on $560 million in sales. Though his business is barely 20 years old, Anthony Rupert today makes one out of every 50 cigarettes smoked...