Word: riches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAMILY MOSKAT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story of a rich Warsaw family from pre-World War I days until 1939, told with richness and scope reminiscent of the great 19th century Russian novels. Singer, too often tagged as "the master of Yiddish prose," ranks among the best contemporary novelists in any language...
...Rich Friedman and Todd Wilkinson, both juniors, hold the seven and eight places on the varsity. Sophomore Brain Davis, often exceptional, often erratic and sloppy, is playing number nine, and Mike Tarre rounds off the team...
...every superlative in my critical vocabulary. With just a twinkle of his eye he tells you what he's thinking, makes you an accomplice in his delight. He and Philip Heckscher, as Macheath's helpmate filch, perfectly time their comic gestures to suit their songs. And they both have rich, pleasing voices. Richard Backus, as Locket, is the male counterpart of Miss Levine, a slapstick scene stealer with a comically mobile face. Unfortunately awkward, for he seems unsure of himself, stumbling over his lines and stiffly declaiming his songs. Still, he scowls enough to make an adequately evil Peachum...
...Rich Reward. Last fall's introduction of the hot-selling 1965s helped make 1964 Chrysler's most profitable year; it had earnings of $213.8 million on record sales of almost $4.3 billion. The year was also profitable for Chrysler's directors and officers, who were awarded a total of $2,110,254 in salaries and $3,780,000 in bonuses. Townsend himself set a personal record, improving his 1963 salary and bonus of $423,567 to $555,900 last year...
...lending of dollars abroad to close the U.S. payments gap, the cries are rising from Bern to Canberra. The U.S. has been a vast commercial bank to a capital-starved world, having pumped $25 billion abroad in the past decade, and other nations are reluctant to part with this rich source of money. Said London's Evening Standard last week: "Already there is talk of a new dollar shortage of the kind which made economic life so difficult in early postwar years...