Word: treks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the beginning, The Way West is off on the wrong trek. As was common in the taming of the frontier, there is a great waste of natural resources-in this case, Mitchum, Douglas, Widmark and Albright. All are solid professional performers who deserve to travel first-class next time they journey West...
BYLINE: ERNEST HEMINGWAY, edited by William White. A trek through the major wars of the 20th century and other action journalism in the company of the man whose pen set the style for reporting and living them...
...trek down from the summit be gan with his all-knowing China stories for the newspaper PM and continued with his World War II pieces in Collier's magazine. He, not events, became his subject. He reported how Hemingway landed on D-day in an LCV(P), and told the commander how to find Fox Green beach. He told how Hemingway forged ahead of the Allied armies with a group of guerrillas. It was Hemingway who liberated Paris and a fair sampling of French wine cellars...
...troubled Paramount Pictures in a $165 million stock swap deal, waded in farther. G&W agreed to take over Hollywood's Desilu Productions, the TV film maker controlled by Comedienne Lucille Ball, for $17 million in stock. Desilu produces four TV series (The Lucy Show, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek and You Don't Say), rents production facilities to 13 others, including I Spy and Corner Pyle. All of this earned Desilu $734,000 on revenues of $18.8 million in fiscal 1966. Charles G. Bluhdorn, 40, the Vienna-born immigrant who whipped G&W into a $317 million corporation...
...first exodus took place in 1963, when Dwain Evans, a Churches of Christ preacher, led a trek of 85 families, most of them from Texas, to West Islip, Long Island. So successful was this experiment-the West Islip congregation now has its own $300,000 church and has won 100 converts-that other ministers set up similar communities in Somerville, N.J., and Stamford, Conn. This year, the Churches of Christ plan to organize new congregations in Rochester, N.Y., Burlington, Mass., and Toronto, Canada. By 1968, they hope to ship a readymade congregation to Sao Paulo in Brazil...