Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson's swing through Florida marks the end of their preseason in Briggs Cage. Harvard's mammoth indoor sandlot...
When Jonathan Scott was brought in as the first outsider ever to head the 116-year-old and no longer Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., observers knew that he would swing the ax like no insider ever could. Last week, after only a month on the job, Chairman Scott, 44, took a tradition-shattering step toward revitalizing a company that long ago lost its place as the monarch of U.S. food retailing. He knew that A. & P.'s secretive, sometimes smug management had determinedly followed outmoded policies. It failed to invest in modern suburban supermarkets but held...
...build a huge steel industry that will exploit its iron ore and great sources of hydroelectric power. Deep in the backlands on the Orinoco River, more than 200,000 people have already clustered in the government run, iron-and-steel community of Ciudad Guayana, where international businessmen come to swing deals, dine on fine French food and gaze upon spectacular waterfalls. Pérez aims to raise steel output from last year's 784,000 metric tons to 5 million tons by 1978, and to 15 million by 1985. If those hugely ambitious goals are met, Venezuela will have...
Died. George Stevens, 70, American film director, of an apparent heart attack; in Lancaster, Calif. Stevens confected a series of comedies and melodramas in the 1930s, among them Swing Time, A Damsel in Distress and Gunga Din. His bitter wartime experiences (filming the scenes of Dachau death camp used at the Nuremberg trials) deepened his vision. Stevens' masterworks, Shane, Giant and A Place in the Sun, have become classic incarnations of American legend...
Buying new sneakers, without which summer cannot begin at all. Hanging the porch swing, gathering dandelion blossoms, pressing them, adding rain water and waiting for the bubbles of fermentation. A friend leaves town. An old man dies. Grandma cooks a mighty belly-boggling, legendary dinner. Douglas gets sick and lies loony and limp. He gets well. He and his brother rocket around town, crazy with motion. He hides, quiet, in the dark bed of ferns beside the porch, listening to the drone of grown-up voices; cigar ends glow in the dusk. His new sneakers fade, streak, scuff...