Word: wanderer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tour, and to gibe wittily at the shoddy products of the rival literary capital in New York. On the same morning a junior clerk might receive an elaborate good morning from Longfellow and an impersonal purchase order from the shy Hawthorne. In either case, the great man would soon wander to the rear of the store to join the crowd in Fields's cluttered office...
Gaining entry presents no problem to the skyscraper sneak. All he has to do is mingle with lunch-hour throngs, or wander through the halls affecting that where-is-the-personnel-department look, until he finds what he is really after. Thieves masquerade as job seekers, repairmen, delivery boys, messengers. And some manage to clean up simply by walking around with...
Route 66, for instance, has to do with two young men who wander about the U.S. in a Corvette seeking adventure (one of the sponsors: Chevrolet). But any single episode may end up dealing with anything from evangelism to sound engineering to murder. This is because of Silliphant's reluctance to write a script "unless there is a profound meaning." The meaning of Route 66, he says, has to do with "a search for identity in contemporary America. It is a show about a statement of existence. If anything, it is closer to Sartre and Kafka than to anything...
Today, ten years after the armistice of Panmunjom, the scars of fighting are partially hidden by underbrush, the trenches and foxholes have caved in, deer and an occasional bear wander where men fought and died for the three years of the Korean...
Marinas & Uranium. In search of diversification, Socony has in the past year investigated 123 projects, from oil-fired air conditioners to marinas and country clubs. Last week Socony bought nine plants producing paints and industrial coatings from Martin Marietta Corp. Some other companies wander farther afield: Kerr-McGee bought a railroad tie producer, Tidewater a uranium mine in Wyoming and the exploration rights for diamonds in Hottentot Bay, South West Africa. Kern County Land Co., a California oil producer, gets more than half its gross revenues from turning out auto parts...