Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas. He was met at the airport near Dallas in a funeral director's Cadillac limousine (Dallas, unaccountably, could not produce a proper car from any other source), toured a General Motors plant in nearby Arlington. He took in a fashion show at Neiman-Marcus' department store, and best of all, got a good taste of cowboy life at the famed King Ranch, where the land and the vast expanses seemed more like home than granite-blocked Washington or gleaming Dallas. There, in five-gallon hat and astride a quarter horse, he got a close look...
...century's most gruesome criminal cases?and one of psychiatry's nost extraordinary case histories. He had gone into Plainfield (pop. 680) on a quiet Saturday morning (most of the men were out for the opening of the deer season) and shot Bernice Worden, 58, proprietor of a general store, with a .22 rifle from her own stock. He had loaded the body nto the store's pickup truck, driven it out to his farm. He was finishing a hearty dinner (pork chops, macaroni and cheese, Dickies, coffee and cookies) with his neighbors the Hills when the police arrived...
...much as 7% in 1958, the new homes, coupled with big programs for new schools, highways, dams and bridges, are expected by F. W. Dodge Corp., the building industry's top experts, to nudge overall construction beyond $48 billion to another record next year. As for retail sales, store owners, who expected record Thanksgiving and Christmas business, have shaved their estimates. Sales last month dropped 2%, and though the year-long totals are still a little ahead of 1956, many retailers say frankly that the recession talk is keeping customers away...
...fortunate in the rather lifeless role of the professor's assistant, a role that seems to be forgotten by Huxley at the end of the play. Billy Quinn is a charming young boy, but Nina Reader, who plays his sister, should perhaps be sent back to a toy store. She intrudes on a play that is on the whole an often amusing bit of nearly nothing...
Timesaver. In Milan, Italy, James Lorenzi, 68. swiped a clock from a jewelry store, had almost made his getaway when the alarm went...