Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern metropolis dwellers and real estate operators. Because of fumes, taxi horns and all-night neon signs, the lower floors of most centrally located apartment houses have been a drug on the market. By giving apartments a piggyback ride on the top of office buildings, realtors can not only lift tenants far above the hurly-burly of the streets, but also keep them close to the city's center...
...Kenneth Tynan, who are director and literary manager of Britain's National Theater, decided it needed a thorough overhaul. To thin out the verbal thickets, they called in Poet-Classicist Robert Graves, who made over 300 changes from obscure to understandable Elizabethan. To give the plot a new lift, they unleashed the talents of Director Franco Zeffirelli, whose earlier beatnik Hamlet had the hero intone, "To be or not to be-what the hell...
There are no lift-bridges on the Charles, this has not deterred the Harvard Club from scheduling its first race the season over a course which passes under five bridges...
...should be a colorful sight as crews balance on the bows of the tippy Inter club Dinghies, lift the thirty-foot masts from their slots, and lower them to the decks. Ringside seats will be available on the Weeks Foot-Bridge for the first show...
...have already been received that the Kondogouris brothers have earmarked the 6,000 vehicles they will produce in 1966 for export to Common Market countries; they hope to raise production to 15,000 in 1967, begin selling in Greece. If they succeed, the brothers will provide an important economic lift for Greece, which has an annual trade deficit of $530 million: the value of Pully exports in 1966 should equal the exports of Greece's entire metal-manufacturing industry. Says Victor Kondogouris, 34, National's assistant managing director: "We aspire to make our Pully business the backbone...