Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin with, the presence of police set a bitter tone for the evening. A dose burly officer flanked the usher at the entrance of the Music Hall, eyeing suspicious types and confiscating unspeakable amounts of liquor. Smiling benignly at the pile of contraband, one officer quipped, "What do you kids want to bring booze to a wake for? This is the Grateful Dead, don't you know?" Very strange...
...Washington press conference last week by Institute President William Haddon Jr., former director of the National Highway Safety program. They might badly shake many buyers of small new cars, which now account for one-third of sales. In some crashes, the small car was smashed into a pile of twisted junk barely recognizable as an auto, while the bigger car sustained relatively moderate damage. In the Chevrolet crash, a dummy placed in the Impala only struck its head against the dashboard, but the dummy in the Vega was beheaded by a section of the hood that was hurled back through...
...building, an ornate pile of red brick in Manhattan's East Village, was built by Multimillionaire John Jacob Astor to house New York's first public library. It has been designated a federal landmark and, except when the janitor's dog naps on the front steps, its outward aspect is as staid as old money. Inside, however, the atmosphere combines elements of a happening, a commune and a scene from The Time of Your Life. Bicycles wheel through the stately old lobby. Plays are being rehearsed. Youths in jeans scurry around with portfolios. Music echoes from...
That leisurely pace cannot last. By the end of the freeze on Nov. 13, the two groups must shape standards to limit rises in pay and prices. Demands for special treatment are already beginning to pile up. Automakers, for example, are clamoring to put into effect the 4% price boosts that they had wanted to make during the freeze. Ford executives point out that the company's third-quarter profits would have been $1.18 a share rather than 83? if it had not been for the freeze...
...century of wars, devaluations and inflations has left many people with an almost religious reverence for gold. An estimated $4.5 billion worth of the metal is secreted by French hoarders in socks, crockery, mattresses and vaults-more than is held by the Bank of France. Frenchmen buy gold jewelry, pile up gold ingots and collect gold coins-Louis d'or, English sovereigns, American eagles, Swiss Helvetias. They sew gold in their belts when they march off to war. "I invested my first wages in gold in 1949," says one 40-year-old divorcee, recounting a typical French experience...