Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sukarno project is already finished -the handsome, impressive $17 million complex built to house that monument to international acrimony through sports, the recently completed Asian Games. It has been renamed Bung (Brother) Karno Sports Center. Since the whole of any monument is only equal to the sum of its parts, the parts have also been renamed: Bung Karno Sports Hall, Bung Karno Stadium, Bung Karno Swimming Pool, Bung Karno Hockey Stadium. Most of the 50,000 citizens displaced by the Bung Karno Sports Center are still living in Djakarta shantytowns. About their only recourse is to pray at the world...
...next year, and if it is not accompanied by a restrictive monetary policy, we shall start moving up." Another thumbs-up omen was reported last week by philanthropic fund-raising organizations; far from pinching pennies, the U.S. public is expected to shell out an alltime record sum of $8.7 billion to charitable causes in 1962. Perhaps the most hopeful pointer was Detroit's output of 472,000 cars last month, a September level unsurpassed since...
...season to keep their fields alive. From sun to sun they sleep on a bed of rushes in a hut of reeds. In the autumn they harvest a few sacks of sweet potatoes. In the winter they rout stumps out of the hard land to increase their pitiful sum of soil. In the spring they reap the winter wheat and thresh it with a flail as old as agriculture. In the summer they climb down to the boat, row across to the mainland, trudge off to the spring...
...Muddle Up." How does the economy look in sum? "Stagnation on a high plateau" is the way it is described by the National Association of Purchasing Agents, which would not be surprised to see a recession in the next two to seven months. Says Jewel Tea Co. Economist William Tongue: "It's 'upstuck'-up but stuck." But Tongue figures that "we'll muddle up a bit more gradually. Given the stimulus of a tax cut next year, we'll continue up in '63." One belief is common: whenever it comes, the next dip will...
...Gift, a 40-minute movie made by a young commercial artist named Herbert Danska, cost exactly $3,123.17-or approximately one ten-thousandth of the sum spent on Cleopatra. But sometimes talent is worth more than Taylor. The Gift is the most brilliantly original...