Word: havens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...haven't met an employee for 20 years," said Los Angeles Financier Howard Ahnflanson not long ago. "My secret weapon is money." Within that context, Ahmanson was a total success. At the time of his death after a heart attack last week in the small Belgian town of Marche-en-Famenne during a European holiday, Ahmansjon, 61, was the sole ruler of a savings-and-loan, banking and insurance combine that had earned him a personal fortune worth at least $300 million...
...Take a Bath. The Sorbonne became a haven for many who were wounded during the riots and who feared police prosecution if they were taken to the hospitals. An emergency medical service was set up with its own ambulance brigade, composed of every imaginable sort of vehicle. It had its own nurses and doctors, many drawn from the medical school. In spite of unfounded rumors concerning venereal diseases and even plague, a professor at the School of Medicine who called himself Dr. Kahn (nearly everyone used pseudonyms for fear of police reprisals) had only one prescription to give...
...shopping, and it was the only wheel in Madrid. When he got back to the hotel, he was still laughing so hard he had to lie down for ten minutes before he could even tell Myra about it. "Myra," he said, tears running down his cheeks, "I haven't seen anything so funny since the night Gypsy Jack Ramos forgot to wear his shorts into the ring at Sunny-side Gardens...
...views the investing public as a highly volatile and irrational mass mind that usually overreacts and does the wrong thing. Yet Smith/Goodman is neither dogmatist nor snob, as evidenced by his parody of Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, maybe you haven't heard the news...
After the language requirement changes were passed, Dean Ford commented that the Faculty was probably glutted on academic liberalization for the year. But early in the spring the CEP approved what looked to be the most radical change of all--opening Independent Study (previously a haven for honors Juniors and Seniors) to all upperclassmen in all rank list groups. Actually the CEP was doing little more than validating what it found to be the evolutionary development of Independent Study. It had originally been intended as course reduction to accommodate eccentric schemes of the college's best students, but now about...