Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cause of the crisis: a 24-hour rail strike, called in protest against a government modernization plan that will mean the elimination of twelve huge repair shops and 18,000 jobs. In London on the eve of the strike, thousands prepared to walk to work. To spare commuting executives, major firms booked every available hotel room. Big banks chartered buses to haul workers, and one Regent Street store collected its staff in furniture vans. The Foreign Office simply provided mattresses, suggesting that staffers might want to sleep...
...last game leading the Giants 4-2-and then blew it, just as they had in 1951, when Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer to give the Giants the pennant. Only this time, no crashing homer won the game. It came in with a bases-loaded walk...
...Everyman coloring book for quasi-grownups. Color Everyman's face white with flour. Dab on a maraschino-cherry nose. House him in a circus tent, and dress him in clown pants baggy enough to hold a pair of baby kangaroos. Name him "He" or "The Man." Make him walk like a mechanical doll, and then propel this symbolic cipher through a life cycle from the cradle to the grave that seems to take almost as long to stage as it would to live through...
Back to the Foxholes. ABC's two new battle shows are good ones. In Combat, a group of World War II infantrymen are working their way east from Normandy, fighting one hour per week. It has some of the dusty menace of A Walk in the Sun. Meanwhile, Gallant Men have landed at Salerno and are moving north through Italy. Roland La Starza, the heavyweight fighter who was decked by Rocky Marciano, makes a splendid soldier. There is plenty of bloodshed, but the worst is to come. By the end of the present season, when the Nazis have collapsed...
There is also the serious matter of morality. In the old days a proper Brazilian wife stayed home, speaking only to the servants and to God. Now the town fathers are mortified; a man cannot walk home from a quiet evening at the brothel without seeing married women and their spineless husbands shamelessly laughing at the door of the new cinema. It is all very disturbing...