Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little girl in a current subway advertisement. "Mother Nature," answers the advertiser, New York City's Consolidated Edison electric power company, "... heat, too! And when she combines them for any long stretch-whew! Many thousands of air conditioners run almost constantly, keeping Con Edison electric plants humming. This summer New Yorkers broke all records for the amount of electricity used in a single hour. But it's our job to anticipate your needs...
...centimeter an equestrienne on her white mount, Yasmin Khan, 9, daughter of Aly Khan and Cinemactress Rita Hay worth, displayed some reinless riding form in the posh French seaside resort of Deauville. Recently a subject of perennial squabbling between her parents, well-to-do Yasmin is now spending the summer with her fast-living father...
When college presidents parade their woes, it is time to mention Jean Paul Mather*of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The maximum salary he can offer a full professor is $8,684; the minimum offered the same man at the neighboring University of Connecticut is $8,100. This summer Massachusetts doubled tuition to $200, planned to use the money to attract sorely needed new teachers. But things do not work that way in the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Last week the state senate voted down Mather's house-approved pay-raise plan. And after five years of thoughtless state...
...summer long, parents of the Pee-Wee League (ages 8-10) in Ottawa, Kans. had fidgeted in the stands as their kids walked up to the plate as if to the block, eyes atremble with tears, to face Harry Murphy ("Murphy the Great") and his submarine ball. Murph awes even his catcher, Lyle Adcock, 10. "We don't have any signals," admits Lyle. "All I do is hope he doesn't throw too hard and that I can catch it." Playing it safe, Lyle wears a pair of boots under his shin guards to absorb the force...
...finances, a foredoomed undertaking considering the uncertain economics of the Indian cinema. Rubber paychecks pile up, and she is never quite sure who owes her what. "It is embarrassing to ask for money," she says. Even so, she makes enough to maintain a Bombay apartment and a summer home in the hills. She has a Chrysler, a Chevrolet, five long-haired Pomeranians, and a constant army of beggars on her doorstep...