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...really began when dozens of big nonrubber companies, ranging from discount merchants (Korvette and White Front) to department stores (Macy and May), decided to invade the lucrative field with their own cheaper private brands-and thus revolutionized the staid tire business. Detroit still equips its new cars with name-brand tires, but two out of every five replacements now bought in the U.S. are private brands...
Such talk is perhaps a bit excessive. Bessmertnova has appeared in only one solo role-Giselle-and that only five times. But each time she dances she stirs up a storm of acclaim such as the staid old Bolshoi has not seen in years. Even Ulanova raves about her. Lithe, dark, and only 22, Bessmertnova seems the very ideal of ballet-the disembodied spirit choreographers dream of, the ethereal figure that explains the whole logic of the dance...
Clouds of balloons floated out over the harbor and bright flags decorated staid old Bay Street in downtown Nassau. Past the reviewing stand, filled with bewigged and berobed colony officials, marched rows of schoolboys while policemen in starched white uniforms stood stiffly at attention and thousands of children sang and cheered. Thus did something called "limited independence" come to the Bahamas, Great Britain's 700 islands scattered over 90,000 square miles of sunny ocean off the tip of Florida...
...handsome, lithe, Canadian-born bachelor of 37, Pastor Glenesk was educated at the University of Toronto and Columbia, worked as a professional teacher, actor and social worker before his ordination. He was called to Spencer in 1955. It was then a staid little parish faced with the prospect of expanding or closing shop. Much to the dismay of oldtimers at Spencer-one of them calls him "that big clown clunking around the church in leotards"-Glenesk decided to make a play for the newcomers in Brooklyn Heights, many of them arts-conscious, church-shy refugees from Greenwich Village. Glenesk...
...always afraid that the Record American will dig up scandalous old pictures of two Harvard boys leaving the Charles Street Jail. The MDC caught these two fellows racing each other down the Charles River on two chunks of ice during the spring thaw. One of them was me, the staid discoverer of improper sex at Harvard...I'm no Victorian...