Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nazis during the Occupation, keeping the Allies posted on their travels. Last week Charles Ritz, 72, now Chairman of Paris' Ritz, flew to Manhattan to check into the strategies of Europe's latter-day invaders. He sampled a $90-a-day suite at the New York Hilton, ran his finger over the moldings, ordered snacks in from room service (usually in the wee hours), and emerged from his experiment reassured. "The Hilton is good in its field," he said kindly, "but the clientele just does not demand the same thing...
...Also-ran: New York City's 144-day newspaper shutdown two winters ago; a pressmen's strike against Detroit papers that ended in November after 134 days...
Movie Mirror, one of the dozens of film fan magazines that exist solely because there are film fans. Alongside that revelation, Movie Mirror ran a smiling cover portrait of Jack Kennedy's widow, together with her two children. Readers who bothered to turn to page 16 were rewarded with the full scoop on Jackie's new romance: "She is in love with life . . . with people . . . with her new surroundings...
Talk about greyhound racing to a horseman, and his lip curls in contempt. "Outdoor roulette. The numbers game -for gamblers and rubes," he sneers, recalling the days when Al Capone and Frank Nitti ran the action and anything went: switching dogs, doping them, filling them full of water to slow them down, sticking thorns in their feet. Some of the old flamboyance still persists in Britain, where the whole country was buzzing last week over the dognapping of Hi Joe, the favorite for next June's Greyhound Derby. But in the U.S. these days, dog racing is almost respectable...
Because it puts so many dollars into foreign hands in the form of foreign aid, military aid, tourist spending, investment and loans. Last year all these added up to almost $10 billion. Result: despite its healthy $7.2 billion surplus in foreign trade, the U.S. ran a foreign-payments deficit of about $2.65 billion or more...