Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Side after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Daley came to the conclusion that he had been badly let down by his police. The toll: 162 buildings gutted by arsonists, 22 more partially destroyed; 268 businesses and homes looted; $9,000,000 in property losses; eleven lives lost. Yet, of the 2,900 Negroes arrested, only 19 were charged with arson. Last week Daley's ire erupted with nationwide reverberations...
Speed & Savvy. A far cry from the dissension-riddled club that lost the 7 pennant to the Boston Red Sox on the last day of the season, this years Twins are a cocky, close-knit crew of opportunists who score runs in bunches (seven in one inning against Washington last week), have developed speed and savvy to complement their power at the plate. Last year the Twins stole only 55 bases in 164 games; this year, under the tutelage of Coach George Case, who pilfered 61 himself the Washington Senators in 1943 they have already stolen eight in eight games...
...United, the domestic carrier that is the nation's biggest airline (1967 revenues: $1 billion), lost its bid to go international, but was given a chance to tap new mainland cities for its rich Hawaiian trade, which already accounts for a third of its earnings...
...that the camera gives a distorted view that no amount of voice narration can dispel. A few hours after the King assassination, one Manhattan station showed a film jump ing with sirens, flashing lights and wrestling figures, which made it seem as if Times Square was a battleground. Lost in the scuffle was the announcer's voice-over saying that the damage consisted of two broken windows...
...famous painting of the white-ruffed, black-hatted surgeons of Amsterdam, solemnly posed around the dissecting table with its pallid corpse. In Tetley's version, the naked corpse (danced by Jaap Flier) suddenly twitches, sits up, leaps off the table, and begins to dance his yearning for his lost life with his wife, his mother, his childhood playmates. Tetley has turned the tables-his cadaver is more alive than the pompous doctors...