Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arctic Frost. A few months earlier Mills might have welcomed the call from Fowler. Now he received it with arctic coolness; in fact, he had not met with both Fowler and the President since August. Mills has been insisting that a tax increase has to be matched by a decrease in expenditures. The Administration resisted, fearing that a cut of the magnitude demanded by Mills would gut federal welfare programs. One list of economies that was proposed would have eliminated vaccinations for children, and another would have slashed the school lunch and milk programs-proposals the Administration well knew would...
...naively optomistic effort to create some kind of dialogue with the people at City Hall, several of the Avatar staff and two Harvard law students from the Civil-Rights-Civil-Liberties Club met with City Manager DeGuglielmo. The whole interview was a bizarre experience...
...their midst; many of the defectors remain on good terms with friends still in clerical ranks. Nonetheless, former priests generally prefer anonymity and seek to avoid publicizing their ecclesiastical background. Says one former priest from the Midwest, who now is a Boston textbook salesman: "On the whole I have met with very little hostility-but then I don't tell everyone I meet, 'Guess what? I used to be a priest...
...Lucite colosseum-the $38 million Houston Astrodome. But he figured that the old Colosseum in Rome was the only place for last week's occasion. Leading a flock of family, flacks and photographers, plus an unruly lion, Hofheinz and his partners, Washington, D.C. Impresarios Israel and Irvin Feld, met in the grand ruins to buy the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus from John Ringling North for $10 million. North, after all, has a home in Rome, so the Colosseum, said Irvin Feld, "was a natural. You could hardly have done the thing any place else...
Zena Gollum, an unMethodical actress of great power and appetite, takes an instant liking to Yank's play and to Yank. Following the pattern set by virtually all other O'Hara women, she is in a hotel room with him a few hours after they met. But after a brief affair, Yank decides that he will not put himself to the tests of theatrical glory and aggression in bed. He runs away to Vermont, begins his next play, and starts looking for other women...