Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's First National City Bank has been distributing one since 1904, for a readership that now embraces college students, housewives, small children and Latin Americans (separate Spanish and Portuguese editions) as well as financiers and businessmen. House organs, especially those produced by Madison Avenue, have a habit of turning into newsletters-a mutation that takes place whenever the editor can claim that a few copies leave the premises...
Austrians living near these borders are in the habit of entertaining themselves Sunday afternoons by looking across a river or a narrow no-man's-land at the Communist guards as each paces out his five hundred feet or so along the edge. From both sides they regard each other through binoculars and, occasionally, when an Eastern guard has become unnerved because of some tourist with a camera, e fires a pot shot across the line...
...ambiguity, he cannot be surprised that his colleagues are ambivalent about his thought." Riesman captures insights so true that his weaving them into a fabric of vague theory seems inescapably right--yet he expounds a point of view rather than an encompassing hypothesis, and his theories have a habit of melting like a sweet, decorated ice cream...
...price of progress is trouble," said Charles Erwin Wilson, "and I must be making lots of progress." Wilson knew what he was talking about: a bulky man with cowlicked white hair and a round, mobile face, he had a habit of blurting out whatever was on his mind. That habit got him into plenty of trouble-and sometimes diverted attention from abilities that Wilson brought to the presidency of the world's greatest industrial corporation and to the post of Secretary of Defense as the U.S. entered the missile age. Last week at Richland, his showplace plantation in Louisiana...
Died. Juanita Hansen, 66, blonde heroine of the silent screen's daredevil thriller serials, who was dragged from Hollywood's heights by dope addiction, later broke the habit and toured the country lecturing on the evils of narcotics, eventually settled down as a Southern Pacific train dispatcher; of a heart attack; in West Hollywood, Calif...