Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regulation issue for U.S. sailors and was called a skivvy shirt during World War II. It became popular with the public in 1947, when Marlon Brando wore one over rippling muscles in A Streetcar Named Desire. But no swabbie or civilian of the 1940s, suddenly confronted with the 1976 variety, would now recognize the T shirt-something that millions of Americans want to get on their chests...
...baby boom. Author Levin's job is harder. He must convince his readers that The Boys from Brazil is more than just a sick joke. He cannot. Levin's primitive literary skills aside, the turning of Josef Mengele into a mad scientist from the pages of a 1940s comic book requires more than a suspension of disbelief. It also requires a suspension of taste. Exploiting such a monster for entertainment and profit is enough to give evil a bad name...
...came as a shock. After all, I hadn't been married since the 1940s." Thus did Actress Gloria Swanson, 76, describe her marriage proposal from Writer William Dufty, 60. Married five times (among her husbands: Actor Wallace Beery), she first met Dufty more than a decade ago when he was an assistant editor on the New York Post. "He looked like a Buddha, all blubber," she says. Swanson, a natural-food fanatic, helped prod Dufty off sweets and onto a macrobiotic diet-and last week married him in Manhattan. "He's a convert of mine," boasted Gloria...
...success in Sanders of the River, Jericho and King Solomon's Mines. But always he felt hemmed in by the constraints upon blacks, and he took to touring and living in England and on the Continent, where, he said, color did not seem to matter. In the mid-1940s and 1950s he was an outspoken champion of civil rights; he moved for a time to the Soviet Union, where he thought blacks had more freedom and where he sent his only son to school. Condemned at home in the McCarthy era as an admirer of the Soviet Union...
...their enthusiasm for the new deals, tour operators have filed applications with the CAB for some 4,500 separate flights. "It remains to be seen how many of these get off the ground," warns one travel executive, recalling some of the fly-by-night charter operators of the late 1940s. Thus prospective vacationers are well advised to check into the wholesaler responsible for the tour and even to make sure that they are booked into reputable hotels (most tours offer a choice...