Word: scrappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absent receptionist, an old woman of papier mache sits at her door-side table. The woman stares catatonically out of pale blue eyeballs and you can sidle right up and stare back without feeling embarrassed. Her card says simply that "she was taken to Boston Commons," a scrap of information of dubious significance, but you can think on it while you look. A shrewd glance reveals the wrinkles pleated into a brown paper sack which might have given harried passersby the chance to mutter "the old bag" as they bustled through the park...
Pitt's Thanksgiving scrap with Perm State will be televised nationally on ABC, which will pay each school $244,000 for the privilege. The exposure only help national program, and if the Panthers manage to maul the Nittany Lions, their chances for future TV loot increase...
...about oil-company price hikes and casting a suspicious eye at price rises in such industries as steel, copper, lead and drugs, which are dominated by a relatively few giant corporations. Legal as well as illegal price fixing has become a target. Last week Saxbe called on Congress to scrap the federal legislation that enables states to enforce "fair trade" laws, which prohibit retailers from selling many products at prices below those set by the manufacturer-a move that should have been made long...
Here are two of the best film actors in the world, looking miserable and fighting hard as they try to scrounge a scrap of grace and dignity from the shambles of this shopgirl's religious romance. Liv Ullmann and Peter Finch first met on screen in Lost Horizon, an unnatural disaster of a movie which required them to bill and coo at each other while chorus boys in loincloths leapt all about them. In The Abdication, they bill and coo once again-this time with spiritual fervor...
...Harvard: "If the wholesale index does not do dramatically better by, say November or December, then the outlook is pretty grim." One hopeful sign: after several years of going straight up, prices are dropping on many raw industrial commodities, including cowhide, copper, rubber, wastepaper, cotton, lumber and steel scrap. They are declining largely because of reduced demand...