Word: wrecker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everything built in America since the Revolutionary War. At the same time, more and more Americans are concerned that progress should not destroy America's heritage. From New Hampshire to Hawaii, New Orleans to Kodiak, Alaska, New York City to Ord, Neb., history hawks are fluttering against the wrecker's ball. Often their efforts are too little-but less and less are they too late...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House is destined for the wrecker's ball in May-that is, if it lasts that long. Last week the visiting Bolshoi Ballet practically tore down the house all by itself. Most of the acclaim was lavished on the Bolshoi's wing-footed Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. On opening night she danced the dual role of Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, and on the next night performed in the U.S. première of Petipa's Don Quixote-altogether a feat that is roughly comparable to Sandy Koufax pitching both ends...
...daughter-in-law until her death in 1964. Scholars hoped that it would one day be open to the public; now, unless a committee hastily formed to preserve it succeeds in raising $350,000 ($100,000 has already been pledged) by July, Olana will be doomed by the wrecker's ball...
...call themselves the Anonymous Arts Recovery Society, has managed to cart off for posterity more than 100 tons of chips off notable old blocks. Led by its founder, Ivan Karp, a 38-year-old pop art dealer, the society's hundred dues-paying sympathizers rally wherever the wrecker's ball threatens. Favorite salvage is the architectural ornamentation carved by unknown immigrant European stonemasons who embellished New York's great turn-of-the-century construction boom. On occasion, however, it is the handiwork of a not-so-anonymous Stanford White or Louis Sullivan...
...incomes increase, more cars are made, and they have ever shorter lives; 2) the price of scrap metal has dropped as the steel industry has converted from open-hearth furnaces, which use up to 45% scrap metal, to oxygen furnaces, which use only 27% scrap. The price an auto wrecker gets for his scrap has fallen to around $10 a car, with the result that many wreckers have allowed car carcasses to pile up, in hopes of a rise in the market. One hopeful cure for this national eyesore was proposed this month by Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall...