Word: hit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lights and crowds were the scene as Vanessa Redgrave hit Hollywood for the premiere of Isadora, playing a two-week stand to qualify it for the 1968 Academy Awards...
...Washington, the federal establishment was almost as hard hit as the retailers, with 15% of the government's 300,000 employees out with the flu. The Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that it too was plagued by severe absenteeism. But it hastened to offer reassurances. When the time comes next spring, said IRS, the flu should be just a memory, and there should be no delays in processing income tax returns or tracking down delinquents...
...meandering, emotional but not sentimental. Blues-Rock Singer Paul Butterfield, 27, names Bach his favorite music along with the blues and Ravi Shankar. "I don't always know what Bach is doing," says Butterfield, "but we seem to be friends." One of last year's hit records, A Whiter Shade of Pale, by England's Procol Harum, was arranged around an organ theme inspired by Bach's organ setting of the chorale Wachetauf. Beatle George Harrison admits that the soaring trumpet obbligato in Penny Lane was inspired by the Second Brandenburg Concerto. Three of the five...
That was before Yellow Submarine. Ostensibly a movie about the Beatles, Submarine in reality is an 87-minute melange of arty art work and allusory sight gags, which has turned into a smash hit, delighting adolescents and esthetes alike. Currently, it is second only to Funny Girl at the box office...
...only on the odd-lot business but also on the average "round-lot" trade of 100 shares or more. "It is unprofitable to serve the investment needs of the small investor," he says bluntly. Brokers make money on the really big trades-and those profits too have been hit...