Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire of telegrams, Zanuck arrived in New York last week, and three days later he was president of 20th Century-Fox. His victory was shared by Spyros Skouras, deposed last month from his 20-year regime as Fox's impresario, and it was a complete victory over the Wall Street moneymen who had shoved Skouras aside...
With Fox trembling from operating losses that reached $22.5 million last year, the Wall Street directors had insisted that the studio was in need of new, hard-nosed leadership-someone like James Aubrey, who made so much money at CBS. Wrong, said Zanuck. What Fox needed was a generalissimo who was also a moviemaker...
...thousand Germans were in their places in Bad Segeberg's outdoor amphitheater last week to see Old Shatterhand make his grand appearance. Shatterhand slithered down a sheer rock wall and, armed only with moral courage, set out to defeat Brave Buffalo, chief of the Shoshone. In the end, it was no surprise that Old Shatterhand had triumphed again, and no surprise that the leader of the bad guys fell into a geyser and was parboiled...
...president of Connecticut's Trinity College to head the exchange in 1951, and it still left him relatively low in the pecking order of high-salaried Americans. (General Motors has nine executives earning more than $350,000.) Considering the general decline in stock prices in recent months, some Wall Streeters thought it an inappropriate time for the exchange president's salary to go in the opposite direction. On the other hand, it could be argued that it's a tougher way of making a living these days...
...Berlin Wall the tension mounts...