Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Argentina. President Arturo Frondizi manages to keep on rebuilding the Perónwrecked economy and weather crisis after crisis, largely because the pressure from all sides-capitalists. Communists, militarists, trade unionists, Peronistas-is so strong that he is prevented from falling, like a man caught in a subway crush...
Appointing her mother as her stand-in at the graduation exercises, Sylvia dashed off on a shoestring motor tour of the country with seven young men. One of them was her husband, Reed Porter, a tall, blond budding financier whom Sylvia had met on a subway in her junior year at Hunter. She was 18. "Instead of having an affair," says Sylvia now, "we got married. It was a nice marriage, but it was meaningless." The Porters were amicably divorced...
...search of his star, Director Malle interviewed hundreds before settling on Catherine Demongeot, now 10, a Parisian house painter's daughter who, as film legend naturally had it, was the only applicant to come without her mother and by subway. Somehow, she learned her scatological dialogue and emerged from the unusually rich experience unscathed-except for the fact that she fell in love with her director...
...book publishing industry., traditionally a tight little shelf of tweedy pipe-smokers for whom Wall Street was a subway stop and profits a slight source of bemusement, today fairly bustles with talk of mergers, stock splits and diversification. The reason: the boom in textbooks for the burgeoning U.S. school population, which is lifting many a once staid, privately owned publishing house into the heady world of big business. Last week two large, old-line publishers announced mergers aimed at increasing their share of the new textbook market...
Amidst hurrying and often indifferent subway riders, a University group advocating a Sane Nuclear Policy marched with placards, distributed handbills, and carried jibes before WBZ-TV cameras at Park and Tremont Streets yesterday afternoon...