Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harris' drive has carried him up from a hard-knocks beginning in New Haven, Conn. His father died when he was six, and the bank in which his widowed mother kept her savings went broke. But with pinching, he got to the University of North Carolina. On the wall of his dormitory room, he put up a sign reading...
Passport forgery and sewer crawling were, until recently, the unacademic pursuits of a group of West Berlin's most serious university students. Their object: to smuggle as many East Berliners as possible across the Communist Wall to freedom...
...Resnick was a jolly, roly-poly man, a prosperous retail jeweler. Through the years he parlayed his Newburgh, N.Y. shop into a chain of ten stores. He did a big business in West Point class rings, had a number of prominent friends (among the pictures on his bedroom wall were an autographed photo of Thomas E. Dewey, others of Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio). He lavished affection and money on his frail wife Lillian. (Says she: "I was his queen.") His blue Cadillac bore the license plates "S.L.R." In 1959 Sam developed a heart ailment, complicated by diabetes...
...Kennedy brothers." Reaching back into history, the Philadelphia Bulletin discussed the dynastic problems of Napoleon Bonaparte, who "had four brothers and three sisters to cope with," but coyly added that "it would be silly, of course, to compare the Bonaparte family with any other, past or present." The Wall Street Journal, noting that some people feel "that if a third Kennedy acquires high national office the rest of us might as well deed the country to the Kennedys," warned Teddy of the perils of losing the Senate race: "He might find that at the next family dinner he would have...
...Three. Billy Wilder's rough-house comedy describes a Berlin interlude in the life of a hard-headed soft-drink salesman (James Cagney) before the Wall put an end to monkey business as usual...