Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Ready Mix. For their part, the contractors complain bitterly that they are often not paid on time for their work, are burdened by the complexity of the new sites (some 4,000 miles of wire and 25,000 connections) and by whole chains of changes that are set off when something new is discovered during a missile firing. The changes are necessary if the U.S. is to keep its bases as sophisticated as its developing missiles, but they can play hob with schedules. At Offutt base, more than 50 site changes have been ordered, ranging from "a few dollars...
...world of business; he does the job for $16,725 a year. Of the PX's 67,500 employees, some 44,000 are foreign nationals working abroad. This mix sometimes presents problems. In Morocco, faced with native snack-bar waiters who spoke only Arabic, the PX had to set up a system of poker chips to place orders: red for a hamburger, blue for coffee...
...first siren whoosh of the commercial jetliner not only changed man's notion of time and travel by shrinking the earth some 40%, but set off an earth-bound revolution that is transforming the whole façade and function of the jet age's gateway: the airport. Nations and cities are taking a searching second look at the airports that served the piston-plane age -and finding them wanting. The result is an immense worldwide building boom to adapt them to the new and challenging problems-for pilots, passengers and cities -of the 600 m.p.h. jet planes...
Both Clint-who decides against becoming a ghost, after all-and his roving older brother, Berry-berry, are members of the Williams family, as splendid a set of oddballs as has appeared in U.S. writing since J. D. Salinger's more eccentric creations. Clinton, who is 14 as the story opens, has just skipped school for 57 consecutive days. He sits around at the Aloha Sweet Shop writing compulsively in his notebooks whatever he sees and hears. This includes his parents' conversations, on which he eavesdrops, and whatever interests him in the family mail that he opens. During...
...Novelist Spark's triumph that it never seems to matter. When Dougal is accused of being "unnatural," he replies: "All human beings who breathe are a bit unnatural." On every page of Peckham Rye, the author demonstrates that notion with high comic brilliance and a strabismic set...