Word: streets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking out of her picture window one morning last week, Mrs. Morris Courington, wife of a Chicago merchandising executive, helplessly worried about the model suburban home going up across the street. "It just can't happen in Deerfield," she said. "It just can't." Like almost everybody else in Deerfield (pop. 10,000), a handsome, new North Shore suburb, June Courington was outraged by a homebuilder's plan to sell roughly one-fifth of an adjacent 51-home development to Negroes. That night her husband joined 600-odd other homeowners in a march on the town board...
...grandparents. "I'm well off," he said. "I have a good character. Angela will be happy with me." Sadly, Angela's relatives reported: "She isn't interested. She doesn't like you." But Francesco wore the blinders of true love. Meeting Angela on the street, he would say imploringly, "I'm still waiting for an answer. When will you marry me?" At first, she ignored him; then she snapped: "Stupid! Imbecile!" To her friends she said: "I admit he's a good catch for some girl, but why does he pick...
...lower they descend for their theme, the higher they mount in effectiveness. The boys in the back room are amusingly kidded in a lilting Politics and Poker; graft is hilariously drubbed in a dittylike Little Tin Box. Even more zipful are a pair of production numbers, a rousing electioneering street dance, and a fine 1920s high-kicking chorus line...
...Britain's Parliament the Economist is read and followed so widely that it is sometimes called "the alternative government." In the U.S. it is quoted more often in the press than any other foreign publication. It is considered required reading on Wall Street and Capitol Hill; the Central Intelligence Agency alone gets 200 air-expressed copies weekly. Few statesmen pass up Economist invitations to lunch in the Honky-Tonk, the staff's irreverent name for the restaurant in the basement of the Economist's London headquarters on Ryder Street...
Despite this unprecedented increase in funds, University scientists emphasize they have not lost any "large measure of authority." Harvard does not permit government secrecy to circumscribe any research, and generally does not accept projects initiated by the government, according to Jabez C. Street, chairman of the Department of Physics...