Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million. So far, in the cooling aftermath of riot, insurance companies are processing only $84 million worth of damage claims, and the overall loss is now put at $144 million. For newsmen, the National Safety Council issues forecasts of expected highway deaths over holiday weekends, usually with a prediction tacked on of "record fatalities." What the forecast never says is that the record is due to population increases and wider use of automobiles, and that the fatality rate is usually just as high proportionately on other weekends-holiday weekends are just a bit longer...
Died. Walter J. Cummings, 88, key man in the Depression's bank holiday, a Chicago banker and businessman who in March 1933 took charge of screening 17,000 banks shut down by presidential order, within a week reopened 12,000 of them, eventually either closed or merged 5,000 others, meanwhile organizing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to rebuild public confidence in the nation's banking system; of arteriosclerosis; in Chicago...
Fathom is yet another lifelike vinyl imitation of spy spoofs, starring Raquel Welch in a title role painful enough to make Modesty Blaise cry U.N.C.L.E. A toothsome dental assistant, Fathom spends her holiday sky-diving in Spain. Recruited by British agents, she becomes involved in a labyrinthine scheme to recover the Fire Dragon, a bejeweled piece of china stolen from Peking...
...Pittsburgh's Papercraft Corp., it is Christmas in August. Last week, at the firm's modern one-story plant, some 1,000 employees worked round the clock in three shifts to produce gift-wrapping paper for the 1967 holiday season. Traveling around the premises in an electric golf cart was President Joseph M. Katz, 54. Shouting to make himself heard above the roar of the presses, through which rolled 600 miles of paper daily, Katz exulted: "You can't eliminate Santa Claus...
Viscount Norwich, whose first essay into history was inspired by a holiday visit to Sicily six years ago, has retold the story of the Normans' little-remembered adventure there with infectious enthusiasm and commendable skill. It is difficult not to be swept up in the momentum of those violent times-and not to look forward impatiently to the next installment of the story, in which Norwich aims to tell how "the cultural genius that was Norman Sicily's chief legacy to the world bursts at last into the fullness of its flower...