Word: scourings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crash Course. The great groupie middle class is composed of the "gate crashers." Organized and persistent, they scour the newspapers for notice of a rock group's arrival in their city, then post lookouts at transportation terminals and hotels. When they have their quarry pinned down, they move in-dolled up in wild outfits and weird hairdos, hoping desperately to attract attention and earn an invitation inside. If that fails, they resort to more direct tactic; fering performers dope in exchange their favors or bribing security guards to smuggle them into stars' hotel rooms...
...acre artificial lake, built in 1905, holds 800 million gallons of water to quench the thirst of nearly a million New Yorkers. Last year Republican Mayor John Lindsay's reform administration discovered that the reservoir's spalled concrete bottom had never been cleaned, and decided to scour it out. "Because of the magnitude of the job," wrote Water Commissioner James L. Marcus in last month's issue of the American City (circ. 35,664), an urban management magazine, "we awarded it to an experienced and well-equipped contractor...
Time was when the Carnegie International was handsomely equipped to scour the world and bring the finest in contemporary art to Pittsburgh. But the current budget of $160,000 does not go far in today's rapidly expanding art world. The U.S.'s current exhibit at São Paulo alone cost $70,000 to mount. Despite his budgetary problems, Director Gustave von Groschwitz unveiled a formidable 44th Carnegie exhibition last week. An international jury found so many works of merit that it selected not one, but six artists as winners of $2,000 prizes (see color pages...
Thus it is understandable that Israel is inordinately interested in Germany, periodically dispatching journalists to scour the land for insights. What is more surprising is that an Israeli newspaperman has produced an important analysis of both East and West Germany. Amos Elon, 40, foreign correspondent for the Tel Aviv newspaper Ha'aretz, claims no objectivity; he begins his tour in 1965 at Auschwitz in Poland, clearly announcing that he carries 6,000,000 cinder chips on his shoulders. But prejudice soon gives way to perception, and recrimination to compassion...
LIFE promised to scour the world for the best pictures, to edit them with feeling for history and drama, and to publish them on fine paper?a feat made possible by the recent development of fast-drying inks, the engineering of heating units on presses to dry them immediately, and the manufacture of coated paper in rolls...