Word: warded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL. "The Tenth Annual Monterey Jazz Festival." Selections from the "blues afternoon" of the 1967 festival, featuring such gospel and blues performers as T-Bone Walker, B. B. King, Richie Havens and the Clara Ward Singers...
Despite the risk for the authors, Western publishers go to considerable lengths to obtain Russian manuscripts. The latest literary contraband, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward, is at the very least a tribute to their competitive zeal. As of last week, it had already been printed in excerpts by two magazines, in full by one publisher, and was being readied for printing by at least two others-a wild maze of editions even for the strange world of literary smuggling...
Bitter Dialogue. Solzhenitsyn's novel, set in the dark atmosphere of a terminal-cancer ward, explores the contrasting lives of the patients-a soldier who was imprisoned for many years in a labor camp, a field geologist who was stricken in young manhood, an aging bureaucrat who improved his lot in life by informing on friends and neighbors. The physical malignancies of the doomed are used by the author to symbolize life in post-Stalin Russia...
When he left Montgomery Ward to join its more or less moribund mail order rival, Sears, Roebuck & Co., as vice president 44 years ago, General Robert Elkington Wood brought with him a long catalogue of eccentricities...
...company can only get bigger. Over the past decade, its net sales have grown by 97% to 1967's $7.3 billion, while profits have more than doubled to $384 million. It has long since outstripped its old rival Montgomery Ward (1967 sales: $1.9 billion), is approached only by aggressive J. C. Penney Co. ($2.7 billion). Last week Sears Chairman Gordon Metcalf, 60, reported first-quarter 1968 gross sales of $1.9 billion, a 13.9% rise over last year's first three months. Says Metcalf: "Nothing that I can see will change our direction...