Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Late Sweetheart. The ship's greatest test, public acceptance, is yet to come. The Cunard Line has gambled $71 million, loaned by the British government, on the concept of the ship as a floating resort hotel for young Americans willing to spend an average $72 a day for "the first vacation city that isn't tied down." "With this ship," says Cunard Chairman Sir Basil Smallpeice, "we are out of the transportation business and into the leisure business...
...most were favorably impressed, there were almost as many opinions of the new ship as passengers (1,451 of a 2,000 capacity). The harsher criticisms came from those accustomed to the old Queens. More general complaints concerned the food (satisfactory to barely palatable), the service ("You're late, sweetheart," said a waiter to a lady sitting down to lunch, "so now you're gonna have to wait"), and the difficulty of finding one's way about the ship ("I feel like Ariadne in the labyrinth" said a London matron). Though food and service may improve...
...gates, three separate Canaanite temples, basalt slabs engraved with hands praying to the sun, and an Israelite temple similar to Solomon's but built 300 years before his time. From the ruins, Yadin was able to establish the date of Joshua's conquest of Canaan as the late 13th century B.C. At one level, a thick layer of ash provided grisly evidence that Assyrian King Tiglath-pileser III had put Hazor to the torch...
Rockefeller has always sought and welcomed advice from associates at the Modern. The person on whom he most relied was the late René d'Harnoncourt, the museum's former director and a vice president of the Museum of Primitive Art, who was killed in an auto accident last summer. Rockefeller met the courtly d'Harnoncourt, an extraordinarily knowledgeable specialist on primitive art, in the late 1930s. Together, they built Rockefeller's collection into one of the finest in the world. In 1949, he became director of the Modern, demonstrating a flair for showmanship, fund-raising...
...volatile and increasingly powerful segment of the world's financial apparatus: the Eurodollar market. That market is a curious byproduct of two decades of U.S. balance of payments deficits. Eurodollars are nothing more than U.S. dollars on deposit in private banks abroad. The pool was organized in the late 1950s by London bankers who sensed that if they could marshal the billions of dollars already overseas, they could lend them out at a substantial profit. Business has been brisk ever since...