Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although aluminium canoes are preferable for white-water canoeing, fiberglass is perfectly adequate for idyllic cruising," George R. Merriam '69 of the Harvard Outing Club said yesterday. "The fiberglass boat is over-priced--$169 for the 11-footer--but it will probably sell well. Most of the Coop's customers don't really know much about what they are buying," Merriam said...
CONGLOMERATE MERGERS. Both the White House and the Democratic-controlled Congress are both investigating them. That displeases some, but by no means all, businessmen. Among the most outspoken foes of conglomerates are old-line business leaders who are fearful of being taken into crazy-quilt mergers. Last week Nixon's chief trustbuster, Richard McLaren, said that his department may bring suit to break up some conglomerate mergers that have already taken place. McLaren thus goes beyond his Democratic predecessors, who showed no inclination to test their legal power to fight conglomerates. If McLaren sues, he will invoke Section...
Crosby may well have underestimated Pan Am's muscle in Washington and on Wall Street. After some phone calls from the White House, the Commerce committees of both the House and the Senate began looking into the sources of Resorts' financing and whether the company might be fronting for some bigger organization in an attempt to take over Pan Am. Legislation has been introduced in Congress to prevent any outside company from acquiring more than 5% of any airline's stock without approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...enthusiasts in Briggs are turkeys, but they make up for what they lack in talent with eagerness. One gentleman who has both is John Kelly the elder, a spry 65-year-old man whose name is almost synonymous with the Boston Marathon. Kelly, who works out in spiffy white shorts and a red shirt with a big white "H," runs for an hour six days a week and for three hours on the seventh...
...some period sense, now suggesting an elegance rare to Ex productions. They are, however, undone by a zipper. The settings, credited to Mr. Hart, are downright tacky. I will remember for some time the bed-chamber of Charles II, prominently decorated with what I take to be his priceless white hat-rack...