Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...east side of the Jordan River, stands a flat-topped mound 140 ft. high called Tell es-Sa'īdîyeh, the "Hill of Women of the Sa'īd Tribe." Its surface is thinly littered with pottery fragments, and a sharp eye can pick out traces of ancient walls. Archaeologists have long suspect ed that the place has a formidable his tory, but they could do little more than guess until famed Digger James...
...bench they were sitting on is actually six big cubes, which now tilt forward to show a mammoth piano keyboard painted on their sides. The umbrellas pick out a waltz, note for precise note, in two-part harmony. This brings the man and woman together. The cubes roll over again and become an automobile with painted wheels. The couple goes for a drive. The wheels spin. The girl's hair blows in the wind. Paper puffs of exhaust smoke head for the wings. The girl loses her scarf. The car backs up to retrieve it. The smoke reverses direction...
...charge of the whole mess. The car has begun to shape campus life all over the country. The timing of cultural events depends on available parking. Fraternity house lawns look like drive-in restaurants. On sprawling campuses, where classes may be miles apart, students confess that they occasionally pick courses not for intellectual interest, but for parking proximity. Harvard men drop their Wellesley dates long before the girls are ready to call it a night - the boys have to rush back to Cambridge and park...
...better sense: as challenger, Listen would collect only half the champion's share. Still others, including Michigan Senator Philip A. Hart, saw something suspicious in the fact that Cassius had signed a $50,000 "contingency" contract with Intercontinental Promotions Inc. before the fight-giving Intercontinental the right to pick the opponent and site for his first title defense. The opponent naturally figured to be Sonny Liston; he owns 22½% of Intercontinental Promotions...
While the executive has much to gain from an option, the company has nothing to lose; it simply sets aside a parcel of its unissued shares-usually about 5% of the total stock-for its key men to pick up later. U.S. Steel limits its options to 300 top managers, and many other large companies give options only to vice presidents or chief executives. But General Electric spreads its 4,000,000 optioned shares among 1,555 employees, Westinghouse grants them to plant managers and research assistants, and Hewlett-Packard has even reserved some stock options for top salesmen...