Word: apts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tops of their ducktail haircuts to the tips of their white buck loafers, these two look worse than any pair since the Everly Brothers. Bobby -- the little blond one who does that fantastic third "baby" in "Lovin' Feeling" -- kept calling tall dark Bill "eel" and "snake." The names are apt, but his voice gives you a few minutes when -- if you close your eyes or otherwise block out his perpetual smirk -- all can be forgiven. It is amazingly deep and seems to come from nowhere; the echo chamber you were always sure they used must be carried around somewhere...
...prude could relax and enjoy it, secure in the knowledge that every vibrant innuendo was just a homily in disguise. Nobody is perfect, after all-and problems have a way of working out. If an industrial giant (presented as a TIME cover subject) keeps a mistress, she is apt to be a glorious scatterbrain who ultimately meets a fellow of her own age and sends the giant back to his wife...
...Viet Nam war policy. By now, however, petitioning ads have become seriously overworked. Donald Keys, SANE's executive director, says: "Now it's not enough to run full-page ads in the New York Times. You have to run double-page spreads." In fact, petitions are apt to be most successful on local issues. Nationally, a notable failure involved the school prayer amendment, which again died in Congress, even though Sponsor Everett Dirksen could point to petitions signed by some 500,000 people. While Dirksen professes to take the "wagonloads" of such documents seriously, most Washington legislators...
They are likely to desert the party completely this year, just as Yorty, their insurrectionlist leader, is apt to desert the party in 1968 to run in the Republican primary against liberal Senate Minority Whip Thomas Kuchel...
...beside the Bight of Benin, the lorries and "mammy wagons" of Ibo refugees were drawn into a frontier-style circle, while families clustered around huge pots of palm-oil chop-a bubbling mass of rice, meat, fish and coconut squeezings. The fatalistic mottoes on the mammy wagons seemed symbolically apt. "God knows best," read one; "I shall return," promised another. But the most appropriate said: "Man must whack...