Word: began
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most people had an easy time with the first dozen puzzles, with such teasers as Troy, Bronx, Albany and Ithaca. But after the second week, some of the less hardy began to panic; that's when the cultural crisis...
...horde of untanglers invaded the New York Public Library to pore over gazetteers, atlases and encyclopedias; then they began to tear pages out of the books, for home use. The Library people became alarmed; through the Trib--ever eager for publicity--they issued an appeal for restraint and respect for public property. This didn't work, so they removed the gazetteers, atlases and encyclopedie from the shelves...
Black is so generous with his 1,000 employees, whose personnel manager is onetime Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson, that he gives them 10% of his profits as a Christmas bonus. But his big-scale generosity began in 1957, when his chief company auditor contracted Parkinson's disease, joining 1,500,000 other U.S. victims. Black promptly launched the Parkinson's Disease Foundation. He has given the foundation $250,000-just part of the total $1,000,000 that he had already given to medical causes before his outright gift to Columbia...
...glimmer cuts the dense black fog before his eyes; he has gone completely blind. Danish Author Karl Bjarnhof, 61, has an un nerving intimacy with this scene and subject, for, at the age of 19, he lost his sight. The Good Light continues the fictionalized autobiography Bjarnhof began with his remarkable The Stars Grow Pale (TIME, April 28, 1958), taking his hero from boyhood into adolescence. The new book defies the law of sequels by being every whit as good as the first...
...television several years ago, twelve musicians in dinner jackets solemnly walked across the first page (enlarged) of the score of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and began tootling the opening bars of the music they were standing on. The stunt was conceived and conducted by Leonard Bernstein, music's most gifted showman. The proceedings of that TV program and of several others are collected in a bestselling book in which Conductor Bernstein proves himself as handy a man with a pen as he is with a baton...