Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memorialize the immigrants, he proposes a massive, vertically ribbed cone, with ramps inside and out, to be called the "Wall of the 16 Million...
...Carping. Like most other "little" magazines, The Public Interest is not likely to become self-supporting in the near future. But Bell and Kristol, who now rely on backing from Wall Street, and other friends, are pleased by the early response; they estimate a circulation of 5,000 or more at $1.50 a copy. A professor of sociology at Columbia University, Bell commissions most of the stories, for which the authors are paid a token $100; Kristol, executive vice president of Basic Books, does most of the editing. Their magazine, they hope, will re-create some of the atmosphere...
...hotter Flemish heads, even this is not enough. A wall near Louvain's medical school is daubed with big red letters: WALEN BUITEN (Walloons Go Home). The extremists are demanding nothing less than moving the French half of Louvain into Wallonia. FlemishWalloon bitterness has caused occasional riots at the school...
...falling-out. One is a dead-broke wino (Kate Reid) who has been barred from her room in the Silver Dollar Hotel. The other (Margaret Leighton) has suffered a "mutilation"-one of her breasts has been removed. Reid has al ready carved this sad fact on the wall outside Leighton's apartment. Bawdily, brutally proud of her own breasts, she has herself, of course, been carved up by life. Kate Reid gives a stridently able performance, but is too self-assured for an alcoholic, and this throws the play out of emotional kilter. Leighton is poignant as only Leighton...
This week the U.S. enters what promises to be its sixth straight year of economic expansion, and almost everything is rising-except the stock market. It has been falling since early February, and last week Wall Street's bull was still reluctant. The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 25 points in three days, touched a 1966 low of 950.66, then rallied fitfully at week's end to close at 953-scarcely higher than last October. Measured by the important price-earnings ratio, stocks are lower than they were at the low point of the 1962 break. They...