Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...IRONY in some of the stories is cold, devastating. The boy's house is bombed, yet the door and front wall remain, so that he can walk through the front door into a field. And an informer cruelly "executes" the boy and his friend with blanks in the gun. The friend is so mortified that he dies the next day, insisting that he has been shot...
...boomtown of Borger, Texas, and went on to attend the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. In China shortly after World War II, he met his wife Ariadna, a White Russian living in Shanghai. After law school at the University of California and four years in a Wall Street law firm, Miller took a job at Textron Inc., the big Providence-based conglomerate, eventually becoming its chairman. During his 17 years running Textron, the company's annual sales grew from $383 million a year to $2.8 billion, and profits jumped from $14 million to $137 million. His spare-time interests range...
Initially, the reaction to Miller by the Swiss and Wall Street financial gnomes should be favorable. The business community has been aware for some time that Blumenthal had been badly wounded and his effectiveness diminished because of his internecine fights with the White House staff. Miller's good ties with Carter will cause optimism among U.S. businessmen. But while the arrival of Miller might improve Treasury-White House relations, the fundamental contradictions of the Administration's economic policy remain to be resolved. And for an Administration whose chief has kept tight personal control over these policies...
DIED. James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, 93, Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1948 until his retirement in 1970; in Los Angeles. At 29, Mclntyre traded in his option on a partnership in a Wall Street firm for the seminary and the priesthood. Ordained in 1921, he put his financial expertise to good use for 25 years on behalf of the archdiocese of New York, seeing it soundly through the Depression and eventually becoming its auxiliary bishop. Appointed head of the Los Angeles see in 1948, he won acclaim and a Cardinal's red hat (in 1953), in part for building...
...Dave's manner of asserting himself is singular, and also hilarious, especially as it bounces off Paul Dooley's expert exasperation as his dad and the wry, wise patience of Barbara Barrie's lovely performance as his mother. But the kid is not totally off the wall. It turns out that he is a talented, self-taught bicycle racer and that his fondness for things Italiano is really a reflection of his admiration for that nation's pre-eminence in the sport. Cycling becomes more than a pastime for him. It becomes the thing around which...