Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seizing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to inject new life into the city core, San Antonio has dredged out a short waterway linking the fair to the San Antonio River and threaded the 92.6-acre HemisFair site itself with a network of canals. It has refurbished its heritage by restoring 24 fine 19th century Victorian houses on the fairgrounds, and the area adjacent bristles with new construction, including the 445-room Hilton Palacio Del Rio, which overlooks HemisFair from the bank of the San Antonio River...
...makes an attractive-and non-controversial-package for sponsors. Thus forecasts are padded with history ("108 years ago today the high was 67" ) and a flurry of arrows and isobars, maybes and howevers that enlighten no one but do serve as a hedge against any variation on the prediction short of a typhoon in Main Street...
Fozzle & Pleezy. Detroit's Sonny Eliot sees even more. Daily on WWJ he describes the weather as "colder than the seat of the last man on a short toboggan" or "uncomfortable as a swordfish with an ingrown nose." He sums up his forecasts as "fozzle" (fog and drizzle) crazy" (crisp and hazy), "pleezy" (pleasantly breezy) or "snowsy" (snow and lousy). He is thorny (thoroughly corny), but his report is the city's longest running (16 years) weather show and earns him $45,000 a year...
...948J60 shares set last Jan. 12. Despite a 6.71-point dip on Friday, the Dow-Jones industrials climbed 25.14 points during the week to 865.81. Investors bought heavily in automobiles, office equipment, savings and loans, electronics and glamour issues. Panicky speculators rushing to buy shares they had sold short in anticipation of falling prices accounted for some of the week's rush. More important, said brokers, mutual funds moved into the market: at the end of February (the latest available official figures) the funds had $3.4 billion in cash, or 8.2% of their assets, as compared with a normal...
...from Richard Zanuck, 33, executive vice president in charge of production. A tough, laconic demon for physical fitness (he does 50 push-ups a day before starting work), Darryl Zanuck's only son sometimes talks like one of the old-time tyrants. "I'll practically do anything short of murder to achieve what I want," he says. After graduating from Stanford and serving as an Army lieutenant, he got his first film job as production assistant on his father's 1957 version of The Sun Also Rises. In 1962, Darryl Zanuck, after taking charge...