Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Theory over Practice. The August torrent of vacationers put Europe's motor maniacs on full display. The European driver may appear to be just an exasperated fellow stuck with his underpowered four-cylinder car on an overloaded two-lane highway, but deep down inside he is Ascari lapping the pack, Rommel leading the tanks, De Gaulle thumbing his nose at the world. Driving is a sport, an intoxication, a release. It is in the blood more than in the brain, and spirit means more than skill...
Only two scheduled shows are not based on anybody's biography, novel, play, magazine piece, film or war. In I Had a Ball, Buddy Hackett will play a Freudian fortune teller on Coney Island. Clairvoyance looms large in the other original, the long-awaited Alan Jay Lerner-Burton Lane collaboration, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Barbara Harris, who was the sensation of Oh Dad, Poor Dad . . ., plays a girl with extrasensory perception...
...HONORABLE ESTATE by Lane Kauffmann. 424 pages. Lippincoff...
Within four years after he began, Bloom was a millionaire. He knew how to live like one too. He married a dazzling blonde secretary, got himself a black Rolls and her a white Mercedes, took a Park Lane apartment and a Riviera villa, and bought a gleaming, $1,000,000, 376-ton yacht named Ariane. Bloom cultivated a goatee to hide his youth, spent half an hour daily with his hairdresser. Through it all, he flamboyantly plugged himself as a friend of the housewife, pal of the working man, scourge of the City and enemy of the Establishment...
...year on furniture v. $800 on cars and accessories. Now the furniture men have begun to shift styles more rapidly than usual to appeal to a nation of rising tastes. "Today's American furniture buyer is interested in three things," says Hampton Powell, president of Lane Co., a major manufacturer. "He puts style above all else, with quality second and price third...