Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fruit drinks called Mirinda. The global market has few seasonal fluctuations. When cold weather comes to Europe and Japan, the sun shines all the brighter in Australia and Africa. Says Britain's Lord Watkinson, whose Schweppes Ltd. is also a Pepsi bottler: "It doesn't rain or snow all over the world at the same time...
...receivers-"probably," cracks Navy Coach Bill Elias, "because his ancestors got practice catching figs that fell out of trees." At Northwestern, Ara produced Flanker Paul Flatley (now with the Minnesota Vikings) and Quarterback Tommy Myers (Pittsburgh Steelers); at Notre Dame in 1964, it was Quarterback Huarte and End Jack Snow (Los Angeles Rams). After Huarte and Snow graduated in 1965, Parseghian had to settle for grind-it-out ground attack; although the Irish lost only two games, he still shivers at the memory. "It was not," says...
Knowlton is in pretty fast company too. He's tied with Perry Williams of Purdue for the lead with 54, and he's leading such big shots as Gary Beban and Mel Farr of UCLA (third and fourth), Floyd Little of Syracuse (fifth), and Lenny Snow of Georgia Tech (seventh...
Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 67, so admired the artist's primitive entitled Snow Bird that he snapped it up for $200 at the exhibition in Manhattan's Wally F. Galleries. Artist Marylou Whitney returned the compliment, laying out $300 for Belted Kingfisher, one of Sonny's nature studies. Luckily, a swarm of other customers also turned up at the champagne party opening the show to pay a total of $8,825 for the 37 works that Mr. and Mrs. Whitney had painted to benefit the Edward R. Murrow Memorial Fund of Manhattan's Overseas Press Club...
...Deighton and John le Carre have written such spy stories, and so did the late Ian Fleming. The literary chromosomes of Graham Greene, C. P. Snow and Vladimir Nabokov are also traceable in this deliberate hybrid. But Anthony Burgess is not trying to imitate them. He has never written an unoriginal novel or an unlaminated one. Every Burgess surface conceals another, like Salome's veils, and they must all peel off to expose the author's naked core. In this exceptional book, subtitled An Eschatological Spy Novel, the reader quickly discovers that Burgess has much more...