Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...businessmen wait longer for their product to develop than the timber owners of the Pacific Northwest. It takes Douglas firs 80 years to mature, and some still waiting to be cut were young when Paul Revere made his midnight ride. Timber's unique "lead time" is a constant concern of the 63-year-old Weyerhaeuser Co., which turns out more lumber and wood products than any other company in the $6 billion industry that provides raw material for U.S. homes, newsprint, boats, containers and furniture...
Lamont Library's new hours, to be continued through June 5, are: Monday through Saturday, 3:45 a.m. to 12 midnight; Sunday, 2 p.m. to 12 midnight, reserve books will circulate at 9 p.m. Monday evening through Friday evening and are due by 9 a.m. the following mornings. Reserve books taken out at 9 p.m. Saturday must be returned at 9 a.m. Monday...
...there was actually an audience potential. The New York Transit Authority reported that nearly 250,000 people pass through the New York subway system between 3 and 7 a.m. An "Occupational Wage Survey" conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that 448,000 people leave their jobs at midnight. Nine weeks ago, the station started round-the-clock programming, offering a diet of (what else?) old movies...
More than 20 booths representing countries from Africa to Scandinavia, South America to the Orient, will greet visitors from noon to midnight on ISA's grounds. Arts and crafts from seven continents will be on display...
...gallon of cognac, being careful not to let it interfere with his work before the cameras in a new picture called The VIPs. His heroes are Scofield, Olivier, Gielgud, Alec Guinness?and a Lancastrian he once met who could down twelve pints of beer while Big Ben was announcing midnight. "I am one of the few people I know," says Burton, "who drinks only when he works." And this is true. Between plays or films, his intake dwindles toward zero. But when he is working, he has "to burn up the flatness?the stale, empty, flat, dull deadness that...