Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...fifth month in a row, the consumer price index rose to a new high in June, the Labor Department announced last week. It was only a tiny rise (.02%), but what cost $1 back in 1947-49 now costs $1.26½. The department bases its index on about 300 items-food, clothing, durable goods, services-but it was primarily the higher cost of food that sent the index up. Prices have crept up 1.6% in the past year, while the gross national product has shot up much more. In the second quarter of 1960, according to new figures last week...
Market optimists who have been awaiting the "traditional" summer rise took it on the chin last week. For the second week in a row, each day the market closed lower than the day before, at Friday's closing was down 20.37 on the Dow-Jones industrial average to 609.87-the biggest weekly drop since March, and only eleven points above the year's low. The New York Times combined average of 501 stocks hit its worst point since November 1958. But there was no rush to sell. Volume averaged a thin 2,500,000 shares daily...
...renowned Menninger Clinic, and had convinced her that he is a thoroughly reformed playboy. Said the bride: "Everything looks so beautiful today!" In London's Haymarket Theater, shortly before the curtain rose on Terence Rattigan's hit play Ross, a couple strolled down the aisle to Row G, soon complained to an usherette that another couple had usurped their No. 1 and 2 seats. The unwitting usurpers: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, enjoying an incognito evening out. Apologetically and still unrecognized by the audience, the royal pair moved over. Earlier, Philip was better prepared...
...LONG Row TO HOE, by Billy C. Clark (233 pp.; Crowell; $4.50), at first seems to tug too unashamedly at the reader's sympathies. In fact, this autobiographical sketch of a Kentucky boyhood is flecked by neither self-pity nor stuffiness, and its markings of American life are so authentic that a latter-day Mark Twain could reshape it without much trouble into a new Huckleberry Finn...
...Long Row to Hoe makes no mawkish attempt to glorify poverty, but it is crammed with woods lore and river-rat doings that Billy might well have missed had his family been prosperous ; after all, few of the more sheltered boys got to know Mountain Mouse, the Hogarthian local whore. With a passionate hunger for education, Author Clark eventually made it to the University of Kentucky, is now a freelance writer. Far from trying to forget his boyhood miseries, he has dignified them through grit and awareness of the natural beauty around...