Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take it on the lam from that draggy country. Zoom!-she pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall. To get in shape for the part, Actress Elke Sommer, 25, has been tearing around the U.C.L.A. athletic field. "I consider myself very athletic," said Elke, who certainly did look in nice form as she took the low hurdles. For the Wall-vaulting sequence, though, the studio will use a stuntman made up to look like Elke-which will be quite a trick...
...quit a New York City high school and entered Schuyler four years later after he had been sent to Albany by his parents to live with an aunt. He graduated in two years, now has a steady job with a local medical center. "Schuyler is a nice school," he says. "It seems like I had a better chance there...
Less Derring-Do. That nice price reflects the fact that the agency, presently known as Pinkerton's Inc., is profiting from the growing demand for unblinking private police services. Revenues last year reached $71,379,000 and profits were $1,936,000, owing less to derring-do involving rustlers and train robbers than to routine protection services for industrial plants and exhibitions. The return was particularly significant because it exceeded special revenues of the previous two years when Pinkerton, under the largest single contract ever negotiated by a detective agency, provided as many as 4,500 people...
Then why is the sum total of Fathers considerably less biting than its component parts promise? First, Gold's immigrant-in-America story has been overworked in the past; it is almost a tedious commonplace, for example, that yet another nice Jewish girl breaks tradition and marries a goy. Second, the author sees his characters through a nostalgic mist so thick as to preclude more than a fleeting glimpse of evil. Even racketeers emerge as loving family men who take hard candies home to the kiddies...
...redefined," he said. "Students should be paid for studying, in addition to having free tuition." Such pay would be an inducement to economically-disadvantaged students not to leave school, he said." A 16-year-old dropout who's working and making enough money to buy clothes and look nice on a date won't give that up to go back to school," he said...