Word: rising
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what you know but who you know that counts." There are certain clubs to join and certain clubs to avoid. If your father knows J.B., or better, if you are related to J.B., then you can get a job, not necessarily on ability, which allows you to rise faster than the fellow who does not know J.B. This works especially well in our Government-it is a wise man who marries the President's secretary...
...people to feed, has been hurt far less. And even though Pakistan is still poor and underdeveloped, its economy is healthy and growing. In fact, aided by a 9% increase in the output of its new heavy industries (shipbuilding, petrochemicals), Pakistan's gross national product is expected to rise 5.2% this year. Pakistani exports are doing so well on the world market that the country has nearly cut in half its dependence on outside economic...
...weeks after the O'Neill premiere in California, the first Broadway curtain will rise on Dr. Cook's Garden, an Ira Levin melodrama about medical ethics, with Burl Ives, Screen Actor Keir Dullea (David and Lisa) and George C. Scott as director. From Britain, David Merrick is bringing a sure conversation piece: Playwright Tom Stoppard's existentialist upending of Hamlet, titled Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Another West End import is the adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel about a slightly bonkers Edinburgh schoolmarm, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The title role, perfected by Vanessa...
...began a comeback during the second three months of the year. At $79.2 billion-compared with $79 billion in the first quarter-profits before taxes were still far below the record $84 billion achieved during the third quarter of last year. Yet the Commerce Department sees in the small rise important implications for the months ahead. Manufacturers' inventories have been reduced for the first time in three years. Retail sales, which slumped earlier in the year, continued to recover and were up 1% during July. All this leads...
Navy ships, branched into commercial cargo handling as Philippine exports began to rise. When World War II came, the Navy commandeered all the company's facilities. After the Japanese conquest of the island nation, all seemed lost for Lusteveco-until it received a handsome postwar windfall. In 1945, with the approval of General Douglas MacArthur, the company was given a treasure in surplus LSTs, cranes and trucks to replace its lost equipment...