Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 20 seconds to go and Los Angeles ahead, 88-86, Emmette Bryant sank a free throw to bring the Celts within victory range. Harried by a full-court press, the Lakers bobbled the ball over to the Celts and Bill Russell called time with seven seconds left on the Garden clock...
Councillor Barbara W. Ackermann, who voted against the resolution, had earlier asked for a complete review of the police action in view of "serious allegations of police brutality appearing in the national press." Mrs. Ackermann's motion was left on the table after Sullivan's was passed...
...Instead, the prime objects of the community's hostility (with the exception of Dean Ford, who did hold two press conferences) remained virtually invisible for a week, and hostility and suspicion fed on their invisibility," Bethell said...
Levi Strauss owes part of its growth to a willingness to gamble that Haas insists has been possible only because the company is privately held. Possibly the boldest move occurred in 1964, when the company became one of the first to manufacture permanent-press clothes, which it now sells in 60 countries. The company intends to keep its ownership concentrated. Whenever an employee leaves, he is required to sell his stock back to the company...
...West 52nd St. as a classy speakeasy during prohibition. It has since evolved into a unique American showplace: a restaurant run in some ways more like a club than a public accommodation. There is no longer a trapdoor on the bar to trip drinks into a sewer at the press of a button, but logs still crackle in the fireplaces and a $750,000 collection of paintings, drawings and bronzes adorns the paneled walls. Habitues include the rich, the powerful and the famous, plus thousands of others who flock there to see or be seen, attracted as much...