Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rich with insights into the clowns' techniques, Films will undoubtedly add new dimensions to the L. & H. legend -a prospect that Everson contemplates with regret. "Overadulation," he warns, "can often build up a wall of resentment against its objects, who are usually wholly innocent of any involvement in a cult movement, often dislike it, and usually refuse to take it seriously." When he heard about the formation of the Sons of the Desert shortly before his death, Laurel suggested that the club should maintain only a halfway dignity, and that "everybody have a hell...
...Wall Street, news of the commission's ruling came as still another blow to A.T. & T. stock, which, with some 3,100,000 owners, is the most widely held in the world. It reached an alltime high of $75 in July 1964, then began falling, and was further depressed by the FCC investigation. Last week A.T. & T. slumped to a 1967 low of $53.25. The loss in value of the stock since the 1964 high: $10.5 billion. Nor is the FCC quite finished with the subject of A.T. & T. In the fall, the commission will launch a new phase...
...taproom whose shelves are laden with jars of candy and patent nostrums. A faint smell of peppermint is always in the air, and outside the door hangs a hand-painted sign: "Gone fishing be back Monday mebbe." The schoolhouse combines a dunce cap made from an 1868 newspaper with wall drawings made by Lincoln-era schoolchildren and period mottoes written on the blackboard: "People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages" and "Nothing is work unless you would rather be doing something else...
Wynn's spectacular slugging is the more remarkable because doctors did not expect him to play at all this year -if ever again. In Philadelphia last August, pursuing a long drive, he crashed into the centerfield wall at full speed-smashing his left elbow and wrist. It took a 45-min. operation and five months in a cast to get his arm back into an approximation of its original shape. But now, says Wynn without the slightest taint of modesty, "I have all the tools to be a superstar." For starters, he has pledged to hit 30 homers, drive...
...truth a shield, to right a wall...