Word: returned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gardening, an intricate network of hedged alleys that can lead a visitor to an open space in the middle-if he makes all the correct turns. Still, mythology lent the maze heroic proportions: it took a Theseus to tackle the labyrinth at Knossos, kill the Minotaur within and return from the depths...
...long-gone folk hero often leaves behind the legend that someday he will return to his people. Barbarossa still sleeps, and the horn of Roland has not sounded again, but Elvis Presley is appearing in the flesh before an audience for the first time in nine years...
...return of Elvis at 34 is a characteristically careful piece of timing by the canny "Colonel" Tom Parker, his manager since the days when Presley was nothing but a sexy-looking young truck driver with a guitar. For the last 13 years Parker has kept his charge virtually invisible to live audiences-limiting him to records, movies, one TV special and no interviews. Now is the time, the Colonel senses, for the comeback bid. Teen-agers seem to be tiring of bloodless electronic experimentation and intellectualism, and may be ready to discover for themselves the simplistic, hard-driving Big Beat...
...Board started a Central Certificate Service in February that is intended to operate as just such a clearinghouse. But computer breakdowns and other snags slowed the system until last week, when the C.C.S. resumed full operation. The brokerage business may face more financial woes before happy days return. Profits seem likely to continue their fall until rising stock prices bring an upturn in trading volumes, and there are fears on the Street that more firms may be forced into consolidations. Wall Street is paying a considerable price for decades of neglecting almost everything but selling. Still, when volume does rebound...
When financial woes forced the family-owned Krupp empire to become a public corporation, lawyers drew up a unique contract in which the late Alfried Krupp's son and sole heir, Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, renounced his rights to a $500 million inheritance. In return, Arndt, for the rest of his life, would receive 2½% of the sales from Krupp's Rossenray coal mine, one of the richest in the Common Market. This year that stipend will amount...