Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made him a multimillionaire. Anyone who spent $12.50 to buy a share of the public company's common stock in 1965 now has, after numerous splits and dividends, stock worth $2,250. Hanson's holdings have a value of more than $90 million. Despite his wealth, Hanson still lives in the same modest red brick house that he has occupied for 25 years. One goal has eluded him: retirement at 55. Hanson is 56, and he says that running Winnebago is just too enjoyable to give...
...greatest single dissatisfaction is the shortage of moderately priced housing considered acceptable by U.S. suburban standards. Emmet Harriss of Manhattan's First National City Bank spent $7,500 renovating his Paris flat, but still has to budget $800 a year for electrical repairs. The chief of operations for a U.S. oil company was dismayed to find the plumbing so erratic in his villa on Rome's Via Appia Antica that for a time he stocked bottled water for guests to wash in. When William Wyman, vice president of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, rented an apartment in Düsseldorf...
...chatter was often more important than most men's theses. Even lately George Orwell's essays and memoirs have achieved an influence likely to persist beyond 1984. Letters and men of letters are declining, but they are not yet entirely fallen. A shooting star or two may still be seen with the naked...
...victim to similar sentimental pretentions. The relationship between Natalie and Kilgannon derives from Of Mice and Men, and much of the dialogue is sophomoric Salinger, as when Kilgannon explains that "the rain people are people made of rain. When they cry, they disappear altogether because they cry themselves away." Still, the geography is simply splendid. Coppola seems to sense that lying between the Hudson River and the Rockies is the greatest film set in the world. If only he could have used it to better dramatic advantage...
Such figures, no doubt once true enough, are now quite dated. Today's manager is a beaverish scuffler who stays in boxing only because it is the life he knows. The fighter often tells the manager what to do. He may still be chased into the ring by the pinch of poverty and some inner reach toward identity, but he usually does not accept pain and futility for long. If he does stay in and doesn't make it, as Leonard Gardner shows in this moving and perceptive first novel, he will find the modern fight scene, though...