Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempts to safeguard poets or artists; it is generally overlooked that, by the very character of their profession, a scratch may prove mortal...
...scratch of a pen that grated Stalin could prove mortal to its author, and Ilya Ehrenburg set out to safeguard himself from an early, flowered grave. Survive he did, earning the epithet of panderer and opportunist from his detractors. Ehrenburg survived not only the Revolution (he published his first books of poems while the Czar was still on his throne) but all the turns and terrors of successive Soviet regimes...
...ailing Houston auto-parts company, has gobbled up one company after another (among them: Paramount Pictures, New Jersey Zinc) to balloon into a $1 bil-lion-a-year operation. A pioneer in the conglomerate-building field, Los Angeles' Litton Industries, which was started almost from scratch by Chairman Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton (TIME cover, Oct. 4, 1963) and President Roy Ash in 1953, is still building. Last week, Litton (1966 sales: $1.2 billion) arranged to pick up yet another property, Pennsylvania-based Landis Tool...
First Race, First Win. Bus (a contraction of "Buster," the nickname given him by a hospital nurse at birth) has been sailing-in dead earnest-ever since his daddy dropped him into a dinghy at five. Starting from scratch as a messenger boy in a Wall Street brokerage house, Emil Sr. had already climbed so far as an investor that he could buy "Brook Hills," a 43-acre estate in White Plains, N.Y. George Gershwin was a frequent visitor, wrote most of Porgy and Bess in a guest cottage tucked away on a corner of the grounds. The Mosbachers wintered...
...foreign nations. Police in several U.S. cities are also interested. During the riots, a New York City patrolman was slashed open from shoulder to waist by a looter wielding a broken bottle. "Had he been wearing our nylon riot shirt," says Davis, "he wouldn't have suffered a scratch...