Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After years of jailing Bowery drunks until they sobered up, New York City police recently started letting the derelicts sleep it off in doorways and vacant lots. Reason: a new Legal Aid Society campaign to affirm that public intoxication alone is no cause for arrest without actual disorderly conduct. Were the bums pleased with this victory for humane treatment? Indeed not: they are clamoring for the good old days. "They want to get taken in," reported the Bowery Mission's Rev. Herbert Maynard last week. "They want to get cleaned up and get some food. If they...
Breasts was written as a departure from accepted dramatic forms. And even as produced at the Loeb it provides an earful, and an eyeful, of fantastic gimmicks. But that's it. Amore vacant, less inspiring set of gimmicks cannot be imagined...
...earned Casaroli the Roman nickname of "the divine diplomat." In recent years, hardworking, hard-traveling Diplomat Casaroli has obtained the release from confinement of Czechoslovakia's Josef Cardinal Beran, arranged an agreement with the Hungarian government by which Pope Paul VI was able to fill a number of vacant dioceses, and negotiated a treaty with Tunisia regulating the rights of the Catholic minority in that Moslem country...
...boss at Berkeley might have restored some measure of order to the campus. But Heyns unquestionably brought to the task a canny and successful blend of firmness and an open mind. He first exerted his authority symbolically by moving into the former president's mansion on campus, long vacant and long shunned by his predecessors. Then he displayed it in practice by acquiring as much freedom from President Kerr, who operates out of Berkeley, as that enjoyed by chancellors of the university's eight other campuses. That achieved, Heyns began to restore the shut-down lines of communication...
...market. Lytton Financial Corp. has fired 70 employees and, like several other big S & Ls in the Los Angeles area, stopped accepting new loan applications. That could prove a blessing in disguise, because the 14-county area suffers from a glut of 80,000 unsold new homes and vacant apartments-a year's supply. As a consequence, while California S & Ls have a manageable 5% of their assets tied up in such money losers as delinquent loans and foreclosed property, a few have a dangerously high...