Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hornets' Nest...
...Nest Eggs & Mattresses. For Cornfeld, that kind of sentiment has been conspicuously rare in recent months; he has made money far faster than friends. An Istanbul-born, Brooklyn-reared onetime social worker, he hit on the idea of selling mutual-fund shares to overseas G.I.s in the 1950s, soon started selling door to door to Europeans. Another successful item that he started peddling in 1962 was the Fund of Funds, consisting of shares of other mutual funds. Paying few taxes, Cornfeld's Panama-chartered I.O.S. employs 10,000 salesmen in over 100 countries, has expanded into a $250 million...
...took a $4,960-a-week cut to work off-Broadway in a revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, jumped later to the lead in national companies of The Fantasticks and Carnival. Next came a stint on Broadway in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was set in a mental hospital and featured Ed as a schizophrenic Indian...
...whites, that is); the A.D. Club and Fly Club good, but containing some ugly rich folk; the Porcellian Club the most prestigious, wealthy, and socially acceptable in Boston; the Spee Club and its Fred Roloff the most interesting and broad, but also sprinkled with dullards; the Owl Club the nest of Eastern preppies and athletes; the Phoenix Club, the Delphic Club, and the Fox Club not worth talking about except over drinks...
Aware that North Vietnamese regulars are concentrating troops in the A Shau valley 60 miles west of Danang, the U.S. sent B-52s to bomb the area. Air Cavalry troopers landed by helicopter on top of a nest of tunnels in the central province of Quang Ngai, rooted out the North Vietnamese defenders and blew up the bunkers. In the same province, 4th Division troopers flushed an entire North Vietnamese battalion and killed 65, losing only one man themselves...