Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They were just getting worse. Sucked up by a fierce inflationary spiral, the country's cost of living soared 45% between January and August, while the value of the cruzeiro tumbled 14%. At one point last week, 30 major walkouts were under way or immediately threatened-a streetcar strike in Rio, a railroad strike in Sao Paulo, a bank strike throughout the country...
...week baseball and football writer, two sports that he knew nothing about. Shifted to rewrite man, Havemann ground out 3,000 to 4,000 words a day. "It was great training,'' he says. "I wrote so much that going home on the streetcar I would read a story, find it interesting, and then suddenly remember that I had written...
...young dancers looked their eager best in Hommage an Ballet, choreographed by the company's director, former Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Premier Danseur Frederic Franklin. In their premiere of Early Voyagers, a new work by Valerie Bettis (A Streetcar Named Desire), the dancers deserved more praise than the ballet, and a packed house rewarded them with 13 curtain calls...
...slogan carried by G.I.s to the ends of the earth, Kilroy replied that he had crawled deep inside ships' hulls, chalking KILROY WAS HERE as his inspector's mark. The Transit Association thought enough of his explanation to award him a prize: a 22-ton streetcar, which his nine children used as a playhouse...
Saving Outcasts. When graft scandals broke in San Francisco in 1907, Rogers won national fame. He agreed to defend two top executives of a local streetcar company, accused of bribing city officials. Rogers' opponent in the case was the fiery Francis J. Heney, a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the course of a tumultuous trial, someone shot at Rogers, barely missing. Someone else shot Heney in court and almost killed him. Weeks later, Heney reappeared with a hideous scar, only one eye, and plenty of public sympathy. But Rogers won his case by proving that some of Heney...