Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ward Just's short stories are mostly bureaucrats. Not exactly masters of their own fate, they do not control the fate of others either. Rather than being captains of nations, wielding awesome power, Just's protagonists are State Department officials, CIA analysts, second-tier Congressmen, Pentagon warriors and journalists. They are not the stuff of political soap opera...
...considered it a bore. Last week the big day-or rather the long night-finally arrived. The essentially uncut performance lasted just under five hours, including two 30-minute intermissions during which, precedent of precedents, ham sandwiches were sold (for $1.25) to the tired and hungry in the grand tier...
Since President Nixon's detente with the Soviet Union, many American companies have moved to increase their trade in the Eastern tier. They have found themselves competing with Western European firms already well entrenched there. The Eastern European countries are perennially short of convertible currencies and therefore are highly price conscious. This is one field for U.S. exports that may benefit substantially from devaluation of the dollar, provided U.S. companies supply the Eastern market direct, rather than through their European subsidiaries...
...most famous theatrical families; of cancer; in London. Descended from a 19th century clan of classical actors and the daughter of Ben Webster and Dame May Whitty, Webster served her own apprenticeship as a performer on the London stage during the '20s. She found her métier, however, as a Broadway director more than a decade later, and her major triumphs of the '30s and '40s (Richard II, Hamlet, Twelfth Night) made Shakespeare a New York box office success...
...rare occasion that could bring together Lucille Ball, Rowan and Martin, and Flip Wilson as Geraldine in a bunny outfit-an anniversary party at the Beverly Hills Hotel in honor of Johnny Carson's ten years as host of the Tonight Show. After receiving an eleven-tier cake almost twice his height (5 ft. 11 in.), Carson startled his guests by announcing: "A lot of columnists have been asking why me and my gal haven't set a date for the wedding, so I think I will tell you that we were married at 1:30 this afternoon...