Word: roping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hipsters wearing rope-soled shoes...
...appointment as a Fogg curator in 1939. All of the works in the show? two-thirds of which were acquired over the years by Rosenberg? have increased tenfold in value. A Kirchner woodcut bought in 1945 for $90 is now worth $2,000. Klee's 1923 lithograph, Tight rope Walker, cost him $40, and now would command 15 times the price...
Mitchell had lowered himself to the bottom of the shaft by means of a rope and pulley tied around his midsection. As he attempted to raise himself back to the opening of the chasm, he became stuck...
Silent as a Ghost. The G.M. sleds resemble the Podars about as much as a Corvette does a Corvair. The innovations include shock absorbers and sports-car-type "direct" steering (v. the Podar's rope-controlled runners). In trial runs at Lake Placid, N.Y., last month, a two-man G.M. sled beat the best time of a heavier, four-man Podar -and the four-man G.M. was faster yet. At St. Moritz last week, astonished European bobbers nicknamed the two man sled "the Ghost" because its rubber-seated runners merely whispered over the ice-while the Podars clattered...
...broken into a run. Hardly a week passes without another U.S. company announcing plans to buy into a European firm, set up a subsidiary or build a plant in Europe. With company coffers bulging and home markets well saturated, U.S. businessmen are more attracted than ever by Western Eu rope's fast-expanding consumer economy and often higher profit margins. U.S. direct investment in Europe rose 40% to an estimated $1.25 billion in 1964, and nearly every large U.S. company made some sort of European move during the year. Last week General Motors, already firmly entrenched on the Continent...