Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harper. As a gum-chewing gumshoe named Harper, Paul Newman stirs awake, forces open his burnt-out baby-blue eyes, and begins to assess the odds against his peace of mind. His Los Angeles office is a rat's nest where the private eye sometimes holes up to sleep. The TV sits humming dumbly through a test pattern that testifies to a restless night. From a wastebasket Harper retrieves some sodden coffee grounds in a filter, brews and glumly drinks a stale, disgusting cupful. Moments later, he roars along the freeway in a rattletrap sports car that...
Dubinsky used the strike sparingly, and under him the I.L.G.W.U. amassed a knippe-Yiddish for nest egg-worth $571 million, invested in everything from union buildings to a 1,000-acre vacation resort for members in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains; the I.L.G.W.U. has even lent the Rockefellers funds for a housing project in Puerto Rico. Dubinsky's hand-picked successor is the union's secretary-treasurer: quietly efficient Louis Stulberg, 64, a Polish-born ex-cutter, whose main job has been overseeing the union's business empire...
...Failure at Questions. The whole thing started in 1957 when Mrs. Surowitz sought an expert to hatch her little nest egg. Proudly, she turned to her son-in-law, Irving Brilliant, a Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia-trained economist and a Harvard Law School graduate. Brilliant recommended Hilton; so doggedly did he handle Mrs. Surowitz's cash and some of his own that by 1960 their combined Hilton investment totaled $45,000 in common stock, plus a $10,000 debenture. Then, in 1962, Mrs. Surowitz received a curious letter from Hilton: the company was offering to buy 300,000 shares...
...army's "Big Red One" division punched in atop armored personnel carriers escorted by M48 tanks, while the 173rd Airborne and the Roy al Australian Battalion swept in aboard 200 helicopters. Except for snipers in spider holes and an occasional machine-gun nest, there was nobody home. But home was something else again-an astonishing network of tunnels equipped with all the conveniences, from freshwater wells to a hospital, a post office and a briefing room complete with blackboard and chairs...
...riding a three-game losing streak, inaugurated by Northeastern, but all three losses were suffered away from McHugh Forum, which regularly contains 4000 vocal B.C. partisans. Playing in the Eagles' nest makes Harvard the underdog in what could otherwise be listed an even match...