Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problems. Los Angeles is struggling to lay enough sewage lines, provide enough water, build enough hospitals to accommodate its mushrooming population. The city can barely build new freeways fast enough to keep up with the growing auto population, and traffic is already so bad that a single accident can pile up as many as 50 cars in one grand smashup. The task of problem solving is falling increasingly on the state government in Sacramento or on Washington. After city and county authorities balked at using local tax funds, for example, the state put up $3,900,000 for seed money...
...title swings like a rusty tailpipe, but stay cool. Ross Hunter, the Hollywood production genius who gave the world Tammy and a yock-pile of fill'ems starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day, has actually produced an intelligent picture at last. Based on the first half of The Private Ear-The Public Eye, a 1963 Broadway hit by Britain's Peter Shaffer, The Pad is laid out as a parable of friendship. Ted (James Farentino), who considers himself God's gift to the working girl, is a crude dude with a smile like a moonlit mackerel...
...between clicks and whirrs, drips and hums, bangs and roars, the intermittent sounds seem psychologically the worst. A Japanese college student, cramming for an exam, got so maddened by a pile driver that he ended his own noise problem forever by rushing out and putting his head between the pile and the descending hammer. The gentle Mabaans, subjected to loud noises by Rosen and Bergman, suffered spasms of their blood vessels...
With few exceptions, the self-seeking blurbs are quickly ripped open and then ripped up. But even that takes time, complained Miami Publisher Jay Morton of the weekly Florida Business Leader. After analyzing his daily 41-ft. pile of junk mail, Morton decided to take Draconian measures. By registered letter, he informed 35 of the most constant offenders (none of whom ever took ads) that in the future he would regard any handout as an ad-insertion order, which he would automatically print at a charge of $2.50 per column inch...
Near the dining room he plopped the fruits down, symbolically, on a pile of Crimsons. Then he hacked at the melons with a real machete which he had used last summer while collecting medicinal plants along the Amason. Like all true machetes, it was manufactured in Hartford, Conn...