Word: riches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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U.C.L.A.'s defense will probably be a bigger problem for Princeton than Good rich's shooting. But the Tigers' ball-handling has improved a great deal since the Michigan debacle, and if things get too bad, Coach Bill van Breda Kolff can al-sides, Providence had one of the nation's best defensive teams, and look what Princeton did to them...
What makes The Plough and the Stars so enchanting for an American is its rich yet unselfconscious Irish slang. Even the simplest expression of emotion have a special liveliness, a weightless presence that sticks in the mind. The actors handle this language with such ease that one could not imagine them speaking any other...
...bigger plans for the interior. At best, Peru's stony Andes can support only marginal farming. Across the peaks lies the great, green montana, Peru's eastern lowland that stretches out to the Amazon and Brazil. The montana represents 62% of Peru's land area, is rich in rubber, jute, fruits, coffee, timber and grass for ranching. Yet it is home to barely 14% of Peru's people. The problem is accessibility. There are few roads and no railroads across the mountains; transportation is by air, or up the rivers...
...hungry author, yesterday's get-rich-quick formula was to produce a popular success and then sell it to the movies. Today, Hollywood's supremacy as the fountainhead is under serious challenge by the paperbacks. Once little more than literary scavengers prospecting the bestseller lists for low-risk, high-return reprints, the paperback publishers have risen on soaring profits to the estate of a wealthy and indiscriminate buyer that no writer can afford to ignore...
...cynical, a young American who sees himself as fallout from the population explosion. On the lam from living, he finds escape only in the purity of the Swiss snow fields, where he maintains himself all winter by giving ski lessons, and sometimes his fair body as well, to rich ladies...