Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tiny Daniels, Md. (pop. 381), is one of the last examples of that almost vanished bit of Americana, the company town, which once ranged from Western mine and lumber settlements to Southern cotton camps. Somehow, Daniels, nestled in a wooded hollow along a back road eleven miles west of Baltimore, has managed to survive. Its company store, company houses, company-dominated churches and company mill-its raison d'être-all remained intact in the age of the megalopolis...
...highly original look at the art of investing, as well as a modest and amusing contribution to popular psychology. Smith/Goodman tells about the young woman who confuses her shares in Comsat with procreative urges ("'Every time they fire off one of those satellites, I think, that's mine, that's my baby!"). And the people who obsessively call their brokers just to feel a part of the big game...
...unexpected drama to the simple relics he has found in two decades of digging in the hills of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. Scorning what he calls the gravedigger school of archaeology, Braidwood says: "I've never had much patience with people who go into the field to mine royal tombs and grab off attention-getting treasures." Such forays, he contends, usually turn up little more than archaeological "junk," which provides few new insights into the past...
Shapiro's probable foe this fall is Cook County Board President, Richard Ogilvie, a Republican who outpolls Daley in his own domain. But Shapiro ran the state at least 50 days a year during Kerner's term, handling mine cave-ins and prison riots; when Kerner was off heading the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Shapiro was acting Governor for 101 days. He got Chicago through the trauma following Dr. Martin Luther King's death, and has already traveled up and down the state. "I'm gonna campaign," Shapiro said, "because I'm gonna...
...INVESTMENTS: Julia Montgomery Walsh, 45, of Washington, D.C., spends part of her day as a senior partner at the investment firm of Ferris & Co., spends the rest in "yours, mine and ours" domesticity with four sons from her first marriage, seven more children who arrived with her second husband, Real Estate Broker Thomas B. Walsh, and a three-year-old son since born to them. Her salary is $200,000 a year...