Word: greys
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...TIME'S cover-ink supply at low ebb? Or was it the intention of Artist Artzybasheff to depict a mass of colorful individuals who, upon entering through college portals, are alchemized into a great grey glob of flannel-suited, conforming nonentities...
...small comfort to San Luis Obispo that the FAA belatedly grounded all Arctic-Pacific planes. Through the week, while its flags hung at half mast, the town was as glum as the cool, grey fog that rolled in from the Pacific. Cal Poly remembered Halfback Vic Hall, an alternate 400-meter sprinter on the 1960 Olympic team. Vic wore contact lenses and had not wanted to play football, but the weak team needed him for his exceptional speed, so he had agreed to play. There was Curtis Hill, an end from Bakersfield, a smiling, studious, religious boy who had walked...
Bearing none of the scandalous overtones it would have in the New World, the practice of nepotism in political life is an ancient and honorable part of England's history. Lord Grey, as Prime Minister in the 1830's, arranged lucrative or influential public offices for no fewer than 17 of his relations. The Cecils have done even better, with a tradition of influential official connections unbroken since the reign of Elizabeth I. Nineteen relatives of the present leading Cecil, the Marquess of Salisbury, sit in Parliament today; eight of them were members of Anthony Eden...
...follows L. & L. wherever they go. They have yachts in the Mediterranean and villas on the Riviera. Lerner has a town house in Manhattan, and Loewe an airy glass pleasure-dome in Palm Springs, Calif. Each owns an $18,000 Rolls-Royce convertible; Loewe's is "black pearl" grey and Lerner's, according to a Rolls salesman, "not-quite-royal" blue...
...most important economic news last week, among a collection of grey statistics, was the continued rise in new-car sales. In the second ten days of October, sales of cars rose 11% over the first ten days, just about equaling the alltime record set last year. The industry is selling 21,730 cars a day, is racing toward 550,000 domestic sales in October. Counting import-model sales, that would make October the best such month in history. For the first time in seven years, fewer than half the cars being sold in the U.S. are eight-cylinder models, reflecting...