Word: sol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even by Texas standards. Billie Sol Estes stood out as a spectacular example of a man who got very rich very quick. At 37, he owned or was a partner in some three dozen businesses, including grain-storage facilities, a fertilizer firm, cotton plantations, a newspaper and even a funeral parlor. Estimates of his fortune ran as high as $150 million...
...Pearl. Each country has a name for its hovels- in Chile they are callampas (mushrooms) because they sprout so fast; in Argentina, villas miserias (misery towns). The names reflect the inhabitants' pitiable hope or bitter humor. In Lima, one of the worst is wryly called Perla del Sol, meaning Pearl of the Sun. Defacing Rio's beautiful mountainsides are slums so flimsy that they periodically collapse in the rain and slide like an avalanche to the bottom...
...four years now, Soviet dancers have represented a sizable hunk of Impresario Sol Hurok's business. Since 1958, he has imported five companies,† toasted the dancers with champagne and caviar at hotel rooftop parties, and sent them off to the vast American steppes to spread cheer and make money. Last week a shy girl in a flowered robe and korsetki (a kind of satin juniper) stepped to the footlights at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera house and uttered the words "Miz Ukraini" (We are from the Ukraine). Sol had brought...
When the air was finally clear of flying dancers, the audience rose and gave the performers the old Sol Hurok Opening Night Locomotive. The dancers applauded back with enthusiasm. The reviews glowed. Box offices along the company's 16-city cross-continent route rang to the clink of coin. As for Impresario Hurok himself, his restless eye was probably already roving the map of Russia that was included in the official program. A ballet troupe from Monchegorsk, perhaps? Or sword dancers from Pinsk...
...year ago, feisty Detroit Lawyer Sol Dann, self-styled "gadfly" of the Chrysler Corp., consumed 70 solid minutes of Chrysler's annual stockholders' meeting with vividly phrased denunciations of the company's management. Last week, at Chrysler's 1962 meeting, Dann held himself down to a scant 43 minutes-which he filled with innumerable punning compliments ("Love begets love") to Chrysler's new management team headed by Chairman George Love, 61. Mused Love wryly: "I wonder what he would have done if my name was Smith." If Love's name were Smith, stockholders would...