Word: hecticly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neon & Sewage. A symbol of Tahoe's troubles is an eleven-story hunk of hardware with anodized aluminum trim called Harvey's Wagon Wheel Resort Hotel, which opened for business last week. Three hundred invited guests showed up for 24 hectic hours of freeloading fun in the public rooms and the gadget-strewn suites (each with its own bar). Upstairs was a great big polynesian-style restaurant, and downstairs was a great big gambling casino; across the street was another casino run by Reno's Bill Harrah and featuring Comedienne Phyllis Diller. Who could ask for anything...
When the first hectic days were over, the novices would get around to answering Gamal Abdel Nasser's cry for union. At week's end Iraq's thinking was summed up by Foreign Minister Shahib, who proposed a joint meeting of the four "liberated" Arab states (Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria) to "coordinate work among them in various fields with a unionist revolutionary and socialist tendency...
Early in the week, track coach Bill McCurdy had hoped to repeat lest year's sweep of the two contests. Saturday morning, however, the strategic manipulations became much too "hectic," according to captain Ed Hamlin, and McCurdy decided to concentrate on winning the dual meet at Dartmouth...
...main objection to Olivar's insurance business, however, was that it seriously interfered with his recruiting (or persuasion) duties. When the playing season ends, the recruiting season commences, even in the Ivy League. The recruiting season is often more hectic and frantic than the fall months devoted exclusively to football. Olivar's assistants were required to handle recruiting when the chief was in California, and there was a feeling at Yale that they couldn't do a complete job of selling high schoolers on the benefits of New Haven without the head coach...
...half or even a quarter of their 1961 highs. Mighty IBM, which had become more of a cult than a stock, plummeted from 578½ in January to a low of 300 in June. Dropping like a shot goose, the market lost $23 billion in paper values during a single hectic week in late May, and $21 billion more on Blue Monday, May 28. By the time it hit its low for the year on June 26. the Dow-Jones average of 30 leading industrial stocks stood 27% below its record high of De cember 1961. Investors who in bull market...