Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...covered Johnson's two-week tour of Asia in 1966 and the famous 4½-day dash around the world in 1967. Sidey was with Kennedy and Khrushchev in Vienna; he stood below as Kennedy shouted "Ich bin ein Berliner!" in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. And he went along on the young President's visit to the old family sod in Ireland...
...great brown-and-beige Rolls was tooling along at 60 m.p.h. down the autostrada between Rome and Florence when it hit an icy patch on the road. The car slammed into a lane divider, then caromed across the highway and pounded into a wall overlooking a 200-ft. ravine. Just before the crash, the front-seat passenger, Film Director Franco Zeffirelli, flung out his arm in a gallant gesture toward the driver. "My one thought was to save her face," he said later. As it turned out, Driver Gina Lollobrigida picked up no more than a bruise on the left...
...makes them all look slightly ridiculous. If the ideal of pop is to reproduce banality literally, then Sturtevant has carried the ideal to its logical but infuriating conclusion-by reproducing the literal reproduction literally. "Oldenburg is ready to kill me," she admits. "It all makes him dive up a wall...
...Streisand this month signed a contract with Las Vegas' new International Hotel that gives her an estimated $500,000 (plus stock in the hotel) for four weeks work a year. Harvard Business School graduates now begin their working lives at an average $12,000 a year. At leading Wall Street law firms, starting salaries for newly recruited lawyers, which ran about $7,500 a decade ago, now stand at $15,000 and are likely to go higher. Today the long-impecunious college professors average $18,000, and in private universities $21,000. Many supplement their base pay with consulting...
...Wall Street, merger battles often give a dizzy lift to stock prices long before actual mergers can create any fundamental economic values to underpin them. For example, shares of Scientific Data Systems, a Southern California maker of high-speed computers, leaped 17 points, to 120, in one day last week on news of a tentative merger agreement with Xerox. This sort of thing perturbs some economists, who fear that the speculative fever could end in scandal or stock bust. As far as Congress is concerned, that only provides another reason to clamp down on conglomerates and their fancy financing...