Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, by Neil Simon. Audiences may shiver at the sight of a balky radiator and a snow-drifted skylight in the apartment shared by Newlyweds Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford, but they are certain to shake with laughter as the couple copes kookily with a week's wedlock...
...Ulbricht and Nikita Khrushchev aimed at eroding Allied rights in Berlin. But whatever the Communists' motives, the holiday pass agreement clearly proved most erosive on their own side of the Wall. To East Berliners, who had been chafing in the gloom of empty shops and echoing streets, the sight of bright, gift-laden visitors seared like acid. West Berliners found their Eastern kin far more outspoken against the Ulbricht regime than they had been before the Wall went up. In fact, workers at East Berlin's municipal transport company, BVG, demanded that the pass agreement not only...
...Doty Committee on General Education issues a statement reading, "We are deadlocked, no report in sight," and appeals to the Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs for help. The chairman of the HCUA agrees to arbitrate, commenting, "This is a grave responsibility...
...protest began. Day after day, Negro men, women and children in their Sunday best paraded cheerfully downtown to be hauled off to jail for demonstrating. The sight and sound of so many people filling his jail so triumphantly made Bull Connor nearly apoplectic. He arrested them at lunch counters and in the streets, wherever they gathered. Still they came, rank on rank. At length, on Tuesday, May 7, 2,500 Negroes poured out of church, surged through the police lines and swarmed downtown. Connor furiously ordered the fire hoses turned on. Armed with clubs, cops beat their way into...
...million in payments spread over several years. By next July 1, when the final checks for 1963 wheat are mailed out, farmers in the province of Saskatchewan alone will have received $448 million from all sources for their crop. Land values on the prairies are soaring out of sight, as U.S. farmers from Montana and North Dakota hurry across the border to get in on the bounty. One farmer in Alberta refused to deliver any of his winter crop until after the first of the year. His income for 1963 was already well over $100,000. "And that," he believes...