Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clean-Cut & Brilliant. He began hitting his stride with plastic accessories. Then from sun goggles and huge choker necklaces the jewelry grew into whole dresses, until currently he buys 30,000 meter-square sheets of Rhodoid plastic a month. But production is still painstakingly slow: ten days for a short shift, 15 days for a long dress...
...Here I am, Sukarno, President and Great Leader of the Revolution. I will not retreat one step or even one milli meter!" There he was indeed, full of bombast and braggadocio, munching cake and sipping orangeade - and apparently back on top of the heap. After five months of submission to his anti-Communist generals, Indonesia's Pres ident last week demonstrated the rea sons behind his reputation as Southeast Asia's most durable politician...
What is most important in performing McLeish is the skill with which his verse is read. Nightingale has avoided the obvious pitfall of over-emphasizing what there is of rhyme and meter. And if he nonetheless falls into a couple of others, they are decidedly secondary...
There is something incongruous about the meter-lined streets where nobody's walking, the Howard Johnson's where you don't have to wait for a table. But Hyannis is a quick stop, having neither beauty nor excitement to recommended it now, and you speed along to Provincetown...
...Long & the Short. The I.A.C.P. found the Baltimore force wanting in almost every particular, from organization and administration to the manners of meter maids (surly) and the size of billy clubs (too long). Administration was so poor, the study said, that the night shift, which had a 40% heavier work load than the day shift, actually had 17% fewer men. The force is so slothful that an aggrieved Baltimorean cannot even be sure that his complaint will be recorded, much less acted on. Investigation is so lax that at least four times in the past year police have attributed deaths...