Word: millions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Supporters point to the extended publicity with which the report was received. Several papers have run ths summary, now being serialized on the editorial pages of the Boston Globe and more than one million paperback copies have been sold commercially. They point to the Senate, which after two unsuccessful attempts passed the Open Housing bill 71 to 20, immediately after the Commission released the Report...
...rising enterpreneurs sought pledges of $20, and hoped to attract 900,000 buyers to meet the then $18 million asking price of the Yawkey estate. "There are a lot of fanatics around," Campbell explained, "and that is only one dollar from every man, woman and child in New England...
...record, survived the turbulence of independence from Britain, built up a jet-age fleet that includes three Super VC-10s and three Comet 4s. Grandly declaring itself "the fastest-growing airline in black Africa," it has more than doubled revenues from 1962 to last year's record $36.4 million. And few airlines can claim anything like its earnings record. For each of the past 14 years, E.A.A. has had a comfortable profit; last year it cleared an estimated...
...with 2,209 dead. A soaking rain had begun to fall a day earlier, turning the Little Conemaugh River into a spillway. Flooded streets were commonplace in Johnstown, but the big worry was a huge earth dam, 15 miles away, that held back Lake Conemaugh and its 20 million tons of water. Both lake and dam belonged to a club where Pittsburgh's most powerful families "roughed it." The dam was in bad shape; every time there was a hard rain, some local wag was sure to say: 'Well, this is the day the old dam is going...
...commercial slogans. Bruce's friends are Harry (Nathan Taylor), who likes to screw girls, and Erica (Barbara Lanckton), who goes to bed with Harry and later slits her wrists when the world becomes incomprehensible. Intruding among them is Harry Sternberg (Jerry Winters), who is married, worth $15 million, and presumably Jewish. In other words, the playwright's conception of a non-conformist. Naturally, when Harvy starts talking about giving away his money in exchange for friendship, the others consider him a bit strange. Not until the white-suited attendants arrive is it entirely clear who belongs in confinement...