Word: lads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a Midwest college boy was recently invited to fly to New York to be a guest on a TV quiz show, the airline shipped along the thing that made him distinctive: a 2,300-lb. sugar cookie that the lad had baked himself. Nowadays, the nation's airlines are willing to carry almost anything-including some substantial losses-in the rush to fill their cargo bins. Air freight (excluding air mail and air express) has increased more than 50% in the last four years, reaching a volume of $230 million last year. This year it will increase another...
Standing next to Wife Happy in a New Year's Day reception line in the Albany Governor's mansion, Rocky suddenly plucked a two-year-old boy from his father's arm. Cradling the lad, Rockefeller said: "It feels good to hold a baby." Then, all smiles, the Governor, 55, and a grandfather ten times over, commented on the news that Happy, 37, and mother of four from her first marriage, was expecting in June. Chortled the prospective father: "With the Rockefeller luck, it'll probably be twins...
...seen except in photographs. "Does the baby meet the family standards?" asked one proud West German mother. "Ja, schon," wept the grandmother. Although the West Berliners arrived laden with everything from Lebkuchen to long underwear, not all the gifts came from their side of the Wall. One East German lad blew a year's savings on two geese, a sweater and a bottle of brandy to welcome his long-immured relatives...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, two tenderly playful one-acters by Peter Shaffer, examine the love of a sensitive lad fumbling toward a misconceived joy and a drowning May-September marriage that needs artificial respiration to bring it back to life...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, two tenderly playful one-acters, examine the love of a sensitive lad fumbling toward a misconceived joy and a drowning May-September marriage that needs artificial respiration to bring it back to life...