Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FLOWERS ON THE WALL (Columbia), a catchy and ironic song about a left-behind lover ("Countin' flowers on the wall,/ That don't bother me at all") was taken immediately into the repertory of the rock-'n'-roll set, but most of the other songs in this album (This Ole House, The Whiffenpoof Song) will appeal to other audiences. The four Statler Brothers, who began by singing Gospel at tent meetings in the South, specialize in country music...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. The grey nether world of espionage, in a masterly re-creation by Director Martin Ritt (Hud), with Richard Burton as the disillusioned British agent on a cruelly subtle mission behind the Wall. Oskar Werner is his East German quarry...
Dealing with the Peking rulers is frustrating because they are so implacably doctrinaire. They call us all lackeys of "Wall Street capitalist imperialism," lumping together indiscriminately Democrats and Republicans, professors and public servants, even the executive and legislative branches, all of us due for extinction by the laws of Marxist history...
Every room has a fireplace, and thanks to President Lowell, who took pen in hand and personally changed a wall here and a door there, no two rooms are alike. Lowell unfortunately is as overcrowded as any of the other houses (the suites are mainly converted doubles or triples.) Still, it's easy for a senior to snag a moderately sumptuous single...
...bulk of the business came from Americans abroad, but now most of it is done with wealthy foreign citizens or institutional investors. In Germany the typical customer is a local businessman or professional man who plunks close to $30,000 into the U.S. market. Such investors are attracted to Wall Street partly because they can get far more relevant information about U.S. companies than about indigenous corporations, even though European firms are becoming somewhat less secretive about their operations. Says a Bache salesman in Paris: "We can tell a Frenchman what we think General Motors will earn in the next...