Word: rundowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early in August 1959, homeowners along the stylish Pacific Ocean beaches in Santa Monica, Calif., were dismayed to get a new set of neighbors: a bedraggled platoon of half a hundred men and women, who moved into a rundown, three-story, red brick building that once was a National Guard armory. White and black, young and middleaged, criminals and innocents, artists and loafers, the unlikely assortment shared one trait: they were narcotics addicts determined to kick their habit for good...
According to Russell Smith, executive director of the CAC, both movements represent an attempt to effect action through "grass roots participation." "Recreation is a common denominator," Smith declared. Organizing people in development of recreational facilities might unite them for further action in rehabilitation and redevelopment of rundown neighborhoods...
...sees to that by extending its compass to all "public" corporations (those trading shares publicly and having more than 50 shareholders), foreign and Canadian alike. In detail, the bill requires corporations to file such data as balance sheets, directors' fees, the nationality of directors and officers, and a rundown on the division of shares between foreign and Canadian stockholders. Unions will be required to submit a similar range of information, including copies of their constitutions, an accounting of their Canadian members' dues and of the benefits paid in return...
...musicals, Camelot is very much worth seeing for "the splendor of its sets, the best of its Lerner-Loewe tunes and its stars, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews; Do Re Mi, with a story of jukebox racketeering that is mere rundown Runyon, is almost saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker; and the best of the lot may well be the pert, piquant French import, Irma La Douce, with delightful Dynamo Elizabeth Seal. The holdovers-not counting the perennials such as My Fair Lady and The Music Man-are topped by Fiorello!, an unpretentious reminiscence of the Little Flower...
...Although its story of jukebox racketeering is mere rundown Runyon, this musical is saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker and its occasionally amusing Comden-Green lyrics...