Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with her "father" under grey lights representing purgatory. The audience served as the jury, and another patient acted Susan's aunt and shrilled accusations at her. Soon Susan and her ghostly father went to hell where, under flickering red lights, the damned stood around mute, each in a shell of loneliness and unable to communicate with the others. Next stop was heaven: under a peaceful blue, "God" sat on his throne surrounded by angels, and Susan met a boy friend who had died young...
Mediators & Fumblers. He took over the dirty shell of a 150-year-old organization that had outlived its function. It still reeked from the scandals of power abused, and the base of its power was gone. New York, like many another American city, had once been a teeming jungle of half-broken Old World cultures, uprooted, insecure, warring, misunderstanding each other and the new world around them. After its fashion, Tammany mediated conflicts, spoke for the immigrant masses. The Statue of Liberty said, "Give me your tired, your poor," but it was Tammany that really opened palpable arms of help...
...Langlois, who was a substitute for Joey Giardello (who had a knee injury), was game but overmatched. In the sixth round, Olson opened a cut over Langlois' left eye. In the eleventh, another Olson punch knocked the dressing off and left the cut looking like a blackish mussel shell, gaping in the middle. After a conference with the ring doctor, the referee awarded the fight to Olson on a technical knockout. Television viewers, who could not plainly see the cut or the blood and wondered why the bout was halted in the middle of a round, felt cheated...
...Shell Chemical Corp., which bought three Los Angeles plants. (Cost: $51,234,000; book value...
MISSISSIPPI'S ROBERT C. MILXER, 37, who borrowed $3,000 to open a Shell Oil distributorship when he was 21, now owns businesses grossing $20 million annually, including an export-import company, real-estate holdings in Jackson, Miss. (including a ten-story office building), Milner Products Co., one of the world's biggest makers of pine oil deodorants. With four auto agencies, he is the South's biggest Chevrolet dealer. Milner's income: about $1,000,000 annually, of which he keeps half, since much of it is in capital gains...