Word: six
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are being neglected by the revolutionary government. They are insisting on 50% to 100% wage increases and are threatening to walk out if they do not get them. Members of the workers' council have been demanding sweeping changes in management. But when NIOC Chief Hassan Nazih fired six of the top directors in April, the rest of the top management resigned en masse in protest, forcing Nazih abjectly to ask everyone back. The refinery simply could not run without them. The workers then immediately voted to strike, but agreed to put off a walkout pending further talks with...
...junk-ball pitcher in baseball keeping them off balance." He laughs. "You get older and lose your fastball and there's more junk. It was easy to be angry, but I felt you couldn't go the distance being angry. God's Angry Man is delightful for the first six months, and then you wish he'd shut up. It wasn't easy to shut up when the Viet Nam War came along, and every once in a while I'd let out a shriek. People seemed to like that, as long as I didn't do it too often...
...Nachman has begun to avoid politics. "It doesn't touch people's lives like dealing with the phone company does," he explains. "In the real world, people go for weeks without thinking of Jimmy Carter. As a humor columnist, I wish there were a new President every six months...
Play doctors-those writers, directors, composers and choreographers who are called in for last-minute changes-have been at work as long as there have been lights on the Great White Way. So far this season, six shows have closed after opening night on Broadway, with five more flopping in their first or second week, a record number since World War II. The mortality rate on Broadway makes casino gambling look like a sound investment. The average million that goes into a major musical and the $500,000 or so that is put up for a dramatic production are lost...
...hits as Guys and Dolls and Can-Can. "There was a confrontation between Liv and me as to how the musical would work," explains Charnin. Cohen and Feuer decided that more excitement was needed. Enter two dancers. They did not fit and were fired. A new choreographer arrived with six more dancers. Rodgers, well known for his speed in composing, was sent back to the piano for six new songs. A new lyricist, Raymond Jessel, was hired to write the words...