Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fraad (rhymes with Claude) steadfastly denies the charges of overcharges. All his 3,885 workers at the Fair are paid the union-labor rates prevailing in New York, where costs might seem a bit steep to a foreigner or out-of-towner (sample: $93.40 a week for a porter). The only extraordinary charge is an 18% "idle-time fee" that Allied tacks on to the regular charges for its pool of 66 carpenters, mechanics and ironworkers who make hurry-up, emergency repairs. The extra is designed to compensate for the idle time between service calls. Fraad says that some...
...gymnasium with swimming pool and bowling alleys. Tuition and board costs $3,000, and optional charges (piano lessons, for example) can raise the bill by another $ 1,000. Yet Emma Willard is not a rich school; the endowment per pupil is $2,500, compared to $11,400 for Miss Porter's in Connecticut. Emma Willard took in only $80,000 in gifts last year, all of which went to scholarships and loans to 62 of its 340 students. A $5,000,000 fund-raising drive aims to finance new construction, raise teachers' salaries (average...
...Sylvia Porter, business columnist...
...gift, he has uncorked a fat green djinni, waiting to get out and wield magic. Randall's djinni happens to be Burl Ives, who complicates a routine romantic farce by conjuring up slaves, seneschals, dromedaries, elephants, a shapely blue djinniyeh (Kamala Devi) and a tonic belly dancer (LuLu Porter). Soon, of course, Randall has to explain all the whimsical phenomena to his fiancée, Barbara Eden. This chore convinces him that nothing that comes out of the Bottle is worth what goes into it. He's quite right too. Audiences may choose to stay home where they...
...Surely there has never been so large a cluster of egregious flops in the span of a couple of years," he declares in a sweeping judgment on the recent works of such eminent names as Katherine Anne Porter, Mary McCarthy, Bernard Malamud and James Baldwin. "There are various ways to declare the death of the novel: to mock it while seeming to emulate it, like Nabokov or John Barth ... or to explode it, like William Burroughs, to leave only twisted fragments of experience and the miasma of death...