Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hefner's pad on Chicago's North State Parkway has become a considerable tourist attraction, with guided tours available to anyone who has a minimum of pull. It is also the monument to a major American business success story. Unlike other Chicago businesses, the enterprise is not founded on steel, grain or transportation, but on a magazine. One of the great publishing successes since World War II, Playboy was started in 1953 with a 70,000 press run, now has a 4,000,000 circulation...
...Place to Park. Now Japan's fastest-growing industry, autos are matching the country's phenomenal successes in cargo ships, cameras, steel and electrical equipment. Japanese manufacturers last year turned out 2,286,585 cars and trucks, which represents a 360% increase over 1960, the year the industry began mass production in earnest. Though the total is about three-fourths of Germany's sales, the ten major Japanese builders plan a 32% increase this year to 3,024,000 units, and they look to overhaul Germany in a year...
...than it did on the stage. The camera picks the onlooker up, sits him down hard only two seats away from that subway succubus, and then forces him to sit there with his palms sweating while the danger builds and builds and builds like the brain-stabbing squeal of steel wheels in a turning tunnel...
...medieval executioner. His domestic life is equally grim. His wife is preoccupied with the puppets and parrots on their mammoth television screen. The two live in that great monument to sterility: a mod house. Streamlined furniture done up in cool blues and decorator yellows. The warmth of stainless steel...
Goldberg won fame as general counsel for the CIO and later the United Steelworkers. He suffered setbacks in that role, principally during the 1952 and 1959 steel strikes. But as a labor lawyer, he reaped political hay that gave a definite boost to his ambitions for public service. He played a major role in fighting Communist influences in CIO labor unions, in kicking the Teamsters out of the AFL-CIO, and in swinging a large part of organized labor behind the Presidential drive of Senator John F. Kennedy...