Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laborers from nearby villages, Dr. Pritchard sank 30 pits at the northwest part of the mound. The much-eroded surface layer was probably the remains of the last city to occupy the mound, apparently abandoned about 700 B.C. A few feet below the surface were the floors, streets and wall-footings of an older city that was destroyed by fire. Grey wood ash was everywhere, sometimes mixed with charred beams and mud from fallen roofs...
Married. Billy Rose, 65, Broadway showman who, as the largest individual owner of A. T. & T. (80,000 shares worth some $11 million), now spends almost as much time reading the Wall Street Journal as he does Variety; and Doris Warner Vidor, 48, daughter of the late cinemogul Harry Warner; she for the third time, he for the fifth; in Montego Bay, Jamaica...
...plot comes clear. The boy and girl are in love because their love is forbidden; their feuding fathers have constructed a wall between their homes. But the fathers are no fools. They know that youths are rebels and will want what is denied them. In "Never Say No" the girl's father (Ron Lockhart) and the boy's father (Stephen Cotler) hilariously reveal the devilish ways of adults; they have contrived the feud and constructed the wall to make sure that their children will fall in love...
Bigger capital investments by many U.S. companies will indeed be one of the major consequences of the tax bill (see following story). But there will be countless other reverberations in the U.S. economy-and some of them are already being felt. An early and dramatic response took place on Wall Street, where the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed 3.10 points last week, nudging through the magic 800 mark to close at an alltime high of 800.14. For millions of U.S. workers, the first effects of the tax cut will be noticeable this week, when their paychecks will be an average...
...Bullish Force. In his television address to the nation, President Johnson passed along a prediction by a little-known Wall Street economist, Pierre Renfret, that business spending would grow by 20% this year-though he neglected to mention that Renfret meant only spending by manufacturing companies, expects overall spending to rise just 12%. That is still a pretty tall order, but one that the economy may well be able to fill...