Word: winter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9-10:30 p.m.). "The Final War of Oily Winter" is an original play written for CBS by Ronald Ribman. Ivan Dixon portrays a G.I. who is trapped behind Viet Cong lines and finds it easier to escape the enemy than the well-meaning attentions of a lovely, lonely Vietnamese girl (Tina Chen). Premiere...
...friend of mine put it in a nutshell: "We are not in the real 'light of Vatican II' as yet; we are only at the dawn of a stormy day. But we have the opportunity to determine the weather. We can't go south for the winter; we have to stay and bring about the spring...
...with East ern Europe, second to none in sending tourists. Mercedes and Opels with West German license plates line the streets in front of the best hotels in Bucharest and Prague. In summer German tour ists bask under Bulgaria's sun at low-priced Black Sea resorts; in winter they fly down the ski trails of Rumania's Carpathian mountains or the Tatra Mountains of Czechoslovakia...
Though Americans delight in newness, their interest in antiques continues to grow. One indication is that attendance at Manhattan's blue-ribbon, ten-day 1967 Winter Antiques Show, which opened last week, has doubled in the past decade and is expected to reach 30,000 this year. Another sign is inflation; prices in the past year have commonly risen 5% even greater if more people felt confident that they could distinguish fine pieces from fakes. Unfortunately, the amateur shopping at a seaside "gifte shoppe" is all too likely to wind up paying $50 for a $10 copy...
...American universities receive very low salaries. Their pay is generally one-third and even one-half lower than the income of workers in other social occupations. This being the treatment of university professors, there is no need to mention the salaries for secondary school teachers. When a summer or winter vacation comes, the problem that worries the professors most is how to make their living during the long, long holiday. Many of them are forced to change their calling to become waiters, to toil as farm hands or to act as circus clowns. Any work is better than teaching; naturally...