Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Romney's sudden obsolescence-together with that of at least three Romney campaign biographies-is only one instance of the perils of hard-cover handicapping. Until recently, writers and publishers had all but forgotten Hubert Humphrey, except for an anti-H.H.H. tract entitled The Rise and Fall of a Liberal. They had virtually overlooked Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon. Bookmen had also underrated Eugene McCarthy, who perspicaciously published a collection of his own views last fall. But they hardly ignored Bobby Kennedy, who has been the subject of about one book a month in the past...
...proprietary pride as for profit. Himself one of the nation's most highly regarded real estate planners, Dowling won fame for his design of Philadelphia's pioneering downtown Penn Center project. He also put City deep into such investments as Sterling Forest, a 30-sq.-mi. sylvan tract 40 miles from Manhattan being developed for corporate research facilities (among its tenants: International Nickel, Reichhold Chemicals). Other City properties range from Florida retirement communities to shopping centers as well as two Broadway theaters...
...confronted the three most popularized performers from The Little Foxes--Margaret Leighton, E. G. Marshall and Geraldine Chaplin--and told them a thing or two about Lillian Hellman's play. When it first appeared, the Dean recalled, there was a tendency to regard it as some sort of radical tract, to assume that the capitalists in the play, and therefore capitalism itself, were being placed on trial. But the passage of time had dispersed this epoch-induced, typically 30's reaction. Now, the Dean continued, in the bright, clear light of the 60's, it was possible...
...than 5,000 workmen labored in three shifts around the clock to finish his latest and largest creation, 75-acre, $50 million Englewood-Cinderella City, in time for its scheduled March 7 opening. On the other side of town, Perl-Mack Construction Co., Denver's largest builder of tract homes, was putting the final touches on 73-acre, $20 million Northglenn Mall, due to open a week later...
...causes inflammation of the lower respiratory tract, bronchiolitis (as distinct from upper-respiratory bronchitis) and pneumonia...