Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With nothing to do, he did everything: TV, movies, summer stock, revues, nightclubs. He landed the lead as a replacement in two Broadway shows (Stop the World, Half a Sixpence), but he was still a crucial step away from the ideal niche. When ProducerDirector Harold Prince came after him for Cabaret, he succumbed instantly. "Everyone thought it was a very chancy show," he says, "but I knew I wanted to take the gamble. The tawdriness and decadence of cafe life is something I know...
...year was scarcely three weeks old, and its step on Wall Street seemed springy indeed. With a burst of daily trading that surprised brokers-a daily average of 9,544,000 shares v. 7,500,000 last year-chart lines for the New York Stock Exchange pointed almost steadily upward. Boosted at midweek by a one-day gain of 10.41 points, the Dow-Jones industrial average finished the week 12.03 points higher than it began. Overall, the industrials had risen 61.47 since the year began, stood at week's end at 847.16, or as high again as they were...
...Croydon, who have a bloody mess on their hands. The duke, a bit of a dipso, kills a small boy while driving drunk. The duchess is a Lady Macbeth in mink who fears that a scandal will stall her husband's diplomatic career and persuades him to step on the gas so he won't have to stand up in court. A little petrol does not clear them of the deed, however. Richard Conte, the unscrupulous house detective, puts two and two together and decides that they add up to $10,000-blackmail...
...They worship money and are doped by religion. Money is the thing most thought of by American students because it is the key to enjoyment. As a means of making money, "knocking other people down to step into their shoes" has been fostered since their childhood as a kind of philosophy of life. To seek personal advancement, they may, with a dagger, pierce the back of the person who "obstructs" them, be that person one of their best friends! In Chicago there was the conspiracy of two university students to kill a baby. Their motive was very simple...
...have already referred to the proposed relocation of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government. The first step for Harvard in this large plan involves construction of a new building for international studies, the need for which has been recognized for a long time--indeed since before Mr. Kennedy was elected President. The building is intended to provide a home for the several international and regional programs which have developed, chiefly in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, during the past twenty years. While these have grown rapidly in number, size and importance, they have had to subsist where they...