Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must choose between them, she thinks (if you can call it that) and smiles. "Very well," she decides. "I will choose the one who can do the best tricks." So, of course, both swains make idiots of themselves for five minutes. "If I knock my head against a wall would that prove that I love you?" pleads Belmondo in baffled desperation. "Perhaps," muses Anna. So he jumps up, zooms out of the cafe and across the street, head first into a brick building. She's unmoved...
Results so far are inconclusive, but opportunities for flight will hardly be eased by a new construction program that began at the Wall fortnight ago. As a first stage, East German workers began tearing down the 95-mile barrier -only to replace it eventually with a better and more escape-proof model...
...Lima presidential palace, Belaúnde has turned the ornate, wood-paneled state dining room into a wall-to-wall showcase for his housing, road and irrigation projects. Huge maps cover the walls, and dozens of scale-model projects are lined up neatly on tables. "This one will open in July," he says, pointing to a housing project. "We've just broken ground on that one over there." He turns to the maps with their probing lines thrusting east from the Pacific. "You know," he mutters, putting his finger on a village deep in the towering Andes, "that used...
...venturesome, Wall Street is a magnet. Its elite law firms typically pick only ten or twelve men a year, work them mercilessly, and pay $7,800 to start. Those who survive may become $35,000-a-year junior partners in ten years. Starting pay is about the same in such cities as Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco, but rises more slowly. Some Los Angeles law firms are recruiting with promises of $20,000-a-year junior partnerships in three or four years. On Wall Street, brokerage houses pay less than law firms, generally $6,000 for beginners; salaries normally rise...
...Quest. It is the slack time of the 1930s, and Julian Tate is a young man in need of a quest. He finds it on the day he is offered a job working in Brazil for a man named Joao Monteiro, who is trying to interest Wall Street capital in a mining concession on the Massaranduba River, a major tributary far up the Amazon. There is gold in the Massaranduba valley, and rumors of diamonds and emeralds as well. But what fires Jul ian is the chance to explore the tropic frontier, to prospect and map the river and rain...