Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deep inside a Republican fastness. "It was the old story of the Irish immigrant becoming a citizen, a first voter and a politician at the same time," says his son. "I can remember my father coming back home from the '24 convention. He brought us hats in the shape of teapots...
Humming Along. Nine years ago, two teen-age girls - Kareen and Raquel Lou-dermilk - began to hold nondenominational prayer meetings in the church, and things looked up again for St. Paul's. The summer people turned to and put it in shape: a Denver store owner contributed paint and paid for painting, a doctor spent his vacation repairing the steps, a man from Columbus put in two weeks repairing the organ. Bats and rats were ousted; a new roof was put on; broken windows were replaced; the interior was replastered; and more than 50 people began showing...
...head off inflation, because prices have remained fairly stable throughout the recovery. President Kennedy is reluctant to take any counter-inflationary step that might slow recovery. so long as 6.9% of the work force remains unemployed. For the moment, too, with the U.S. balance of payments in relatively good shape and the pressure on U.S. gold reserves consequently diminished, the Administration feels no great need to juggle interest rates in order to prevent gold from flowing into higher-interest foreign nations...
Some auto executives fear that instead of clarifying matters, the proliferation of names and models may merely confuse potential buyers. But despite 1961's model deluge, auto dealers are going into fall in the best shape in years. By the beginning of September, stocks of unsold cars are expected to be down to 655,000, v. 888,000 last year. And only 545,000 of the September stocks will be 1961-none too many to suit the dealers, who like to have a few of the previous year's models left as bargain bait for customers...
...many short stories, disappointedly clutching a glazed lump of irony in the form of a souvenir ashtray. Caldwell gives away no pottery. In a leisurely way, yet wasting no time with scene-setting, he lays out his dialogue and his few spare sentences of narration. The characters take shape quickly as the story forms. At the end, amazingly often, what the reader takes away is not a mood, or a morsel of truth, or a flash of humor, but the whole story-characters, moods, truths and lies. This is so not only because the stories could be retold as good...