Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoping to cool the nationalistic temper surrounding the bill, the State Department issued a strong formal protest; it reminded Canada that its own huge banking interests in the U.S. - including about half the lucrative Wall Street call-loan market - amount to some $1.6 bil lion and hinted at possible reprisal. The note did not find a welcome. When one high-ranking U.S. diplomat explained the U.S. position in Ottawa, he was told, "Don't be a bloody fool...
Cerf was itching to get out of Wall Street, and at length, in 1923, he found the door. Another classmate, Richard L. Simon, had been working for the distinguished publishing firm of Boni & Liveright, and now he was planning to start his own house with Max Schuster. When Cerf showed interest in replacing him, Simon arranged for Cerf to meet Horace Liveright for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel, Scotch-and-watering place for the famous authors and wits of the day. "There," he says, "were Robert Sherwood, George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker-all of them! Sitting...
...Liveright, still strapped, was ready to unload his Modern Library, a shelf of 950 reprint classics whose only liability was a distinct and unpleasant odor emanating from the binding glue. Cerf rounded up Donald Klopfer, put the arm on his Wall Street uncle, and snapped up the Modern Library, smell and all, for $200,000. Within three years, Klopfer and Cerf, having retired their debts, decided to branch out by publishing a few new books at random. Thus was Random House born...
...obstacle is a matter of confusion over the roles of the sexes. "We drive men out of elementary school teaching because we try to make them fit into a female mold," protests Supervisor Feeney. "We want them to have nice potted plants in their classrooms and murals on the wall-why is it so important to get men to behave like women...
...many remain unconvinced. Military men doubt that a volunteer army will be flexible enough; it will be too difficult, they say, to beef up the army in time of crises such as the Berlin wall incident or the Cuban missile affairs. What will happen to the reserves? Reservists, almost to a man, signed up to avoid the draft. If the threat of induction is removed will the reserves, a valuable second line of defense, evaporate...