Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Demolition Teams. Weathered German pillboxes, part of Hitler's supposedly impenetrable "Atlantic Wall," are everywhere. In Ver-sur-Mer, at one end of the beach promenade, tourists stroll past a blockhouse that now serves as a signal station for fishing boats. A few blockhouses elsewhere have been converted into homes, chicken coops and storage sheds. All along the coast, demolition teams still roam the countryside searching for unexploded ammunition; every so often, when a big enough haul is accumulated, it is blown up on Omaha after the tide has come in. At Arromanches-les-Bains, snuggled between yellowish cliffs...
Peace Stocks. Besides bringing G.I.s home, the war's end would free other draft-age Americans to pursue normal civilian careers and resume buying autos and houses. Those possibilities are reviving talk in Detroit of 10 million-car sales years. On Wall Street, shares of companies involved in construction have become favored "peace stocks...
...Wall Street, and much of the American business community, favors what Economist Paul A. Samuelson calls a "dovish-bullish syndrome"-which conjures up visions of a hybrid creature with wings, hooves and horns. Recent history shows that peace pays. World War II and Korea were followed not by the depressions that had been predicted, but only by mild recessions that were soon erased by new bursts of prosperity. A stand-down in Viet Nam would help both to cool inflation and to open new opportunities for dealing with some of the social ills that hurt the nation and its economy...
...sons, Michel Charles. With his brother John, he bought seats on the New York Stock Exchange right after its reorganization in 1869 and proceeded to make the most of those free and easy times when rigging the market was one of the everyday facts of life. Quite appropriately, Wall Streeters referred to the amateur investors as "lambs." The $2,490,000 that Michel Charles left in 1935, when he finally died at 88, bailed the Bouviers out of the financial doldrums-for a while...
...although somehow the point of a Movie Worsts issue tends to get lost when we find ourselves passively agreeing with it. The highlight of the ensuing presentation is the "Great Ceremonial Hotdog" award to Camelot's Franco Nero "for a zoom across two miles of field, up a castle wall and into his crotch while he sang 'C'est Moi.'" It's unfortunately the only highlight of an otherwise substandard creation...