Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sophisticated enough to understand Lerner's remark, which, in his case, was made only in jest. For non-theatergoing children, ice can be defined as Broadway's term for the great sums of money made by various theater employees through the scalping of tickets. Over the past winter and spring, following investigations by New York State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz, the term has been all over the theatrical pages of newspapers, and the corruption growing out of Broadway abuses has finally been illuminated...
...This is the situation that sparks the law graduate's summer mania: weeks of rule-stuffing at cram schools in preparation for the twice-yearly bar exams typically given in late summer and winter. Run by lawyers, judges and professors, cram schools are often big business. Before becoming a federal judge, New York Lawyer Harold Medina crammed 800 students for $28,000 a year. Medina's heir, New York's nonprofit Practising Law Institute, is now the biggest cram school, with three yearly sessions enrolling 1,800. At $75 tuition, it is also one of the cheapest...
NEWSPAPERS Being Kind to the Competition Even on the dullest day of the mid summer doldrums, the Dallas morning News would not be expected to report the fact that its evening competitor, the Times-Herald, planned to cover basketball games next winter. But that was exactly what the Dallas News did, in June, for ABC-TV. SPORTS COVERAGE EXPANDED, announced the News, over a story reporting ABC's plans to televise 16 basketball games come January...
...grey morning in Buenos Aires last week a milling throng of 3,000 massed in front of the River Plate Club. Shuffling and shivering in the cold of the South American winter, they waited neither for soccer nor for revolution, but for a court of law to convene. No ordinary courtroom could have held all the clamoring creditors of Alberto Abraham Natin, 55, a dapper, moonfaced real-estate wheeler-dealer who was charged with fraud and faced with bankruptcy. Before the crowd, seated at a stand draped in dark red felt, was a stern-faced federal judge. After months...
Once a student is paying to take courses, an additional charge for auditing simply discourages him from attending other classes. One of the greatest riches of Harvard during the winter is the opportunity it offers students to hear professors hold forth on their specialities--even when the student is not formally enrolled in their courses. And such a policy has not resulted in over-crowded lecture halls...