Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sparkle into his Jacqueline's anniversary. First there was a gala dinner for family and friends at their villa in Glifadha, outside Athens; then they moved on to the Neraida Club for Jackie's introduction to Athenian night life. The dancing and bouzouki music went on until 7 a.m., with Jackie clapping spiritedly to the rhythm and raising toasts to the players. At one point, eavesdroppers heard her tell Ari: "I want to know every word of those beautiful songs. They're simply marvelous." And her birthday present...
...Mossier. Powers, 27, was incensed over Foreman's suit to obtain legal fees involving several hundred thousand dollars from Powers' Aunt Candy. "Look you bastard, I'm mean," raged Powers, gesturing threateningly. "I'm tough too," replied the husky lawyer. Then, as onlookers gaped, Powers went on: "Don't forget. I've already killed one old man and it wouldn't bother me to kill another one." "Oh, yeah?" asked Foreman. "If you killed me, who'd you get to be your lawyer?" With that, Powers departed. Foreman returned to his Scotch...
Booming Business. As it turns out, the spending has produced profits as well as civic status for Monsanto. The company's industrial efficiency has been increased by the constant monitoring of all its processes. In addition, it is now recapturing some valuable chemicals that previously went up the stacks, while selling a new line of pollution-abatement equipment to other industries. Thus Monsanto has moved into a growing market that it estimates may soon reach $6 billion a year. "By 1975, we hope to be doing $200 million a year in such business," says Leo Weaver, general manager...
...weeks after set sail the London Sunday Times's round-the-world yacht race last October, Donald Crowhurst's 41 -foot trimaran, the Teign-mouth Electron, had started falling apart. The lacing on the boom snapped, the port forward hatch sprang a leak, and then his generator went out, leaving him without electricity for three days. While his boat disintegrated with the pounding of heavy seas, the sailor's sanity, strained as it was by the loneliness of the solo odyssey and haunted by the specter of fail ure, also began to fall apart...
Withal, the Zoo Opera generated a rapport between artists and audience that made for something special. "It was a fun palace," says Peerce. "An alfresco thing, where you asked a soprano to hold your Coke bottle while you went out and did your death scene. The peacocks never snouted me down. They liked tenors, it was only coloratura sopranos they hated...