Word: vaults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seat number thirteen on every plane, flying standby continuously. Halfway through the ordeal, when he had to vault through a window to get by locked doors, he became tired of the whole idea...
Sport may be mostly a matter of muscle, but a little science sometimes goes a long way. A 17-ft. pole vault is common enough today, but was utterly inconceivable before the invention of the fiber-glass jumping pole. The latest sport to feel the impact of technology is tennis, in which almost any change is a change for the better...
...Brien brought the company back to profits so far this year of $9,728,000, the highest earnings figure since 1959. MGM has sparingly sold off its film library to television, still has 1,200 films in the vault, including Gone With the Wind, for which the company turned down a $10 million TV offer and which it is about to release for a seventh round of movie-house showings. Meanwhile, MGM has negotiated a $52,800,000 deal with CBS-TV to make new feature-length films, is successful at the box office with its big-screen spectaculars, including...
...Empress' tiara, fortunately, was safe in the bank vault when the jewel thieves struck. But there had been an uneasy moment last year when Sonny's wife No. 3, Eleanor Searle Whitney, told a columnist that the tiara was a gift Sonny had bought for her. Marylou would have none of it. Said she: "Sonny bought it as an investment. And I must say, the pleasure of wearing it is delicious...
...United States against Germany, and Stalin was hailed in the West as an ally and hero. In this atmosphere library officials were not anxious to have the archives of Stalin's arch-enemy thrown open for public inspection. For more than five years the papers lay in a locked vault in the basement of Widener and no one was allowed to make use of them. Only after a formal decision by the Harvard Corporation were the papers removed from the vault and made accessible to scholars...