Word: arms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centennial has also capped a Canadian culture boom; new museums, libraries and planetariums are going up in such outposts as Salmon Arm, British Columbia, and Hay River in the Northwest Territories. A Confederation Train loaded with exhibits of Canadiana has drawn S.R.O. crowds at every whistlestop. Recently, a chorus of touring Eskimos gave their rendition of 18th century German chorales. Everywhere Canadians seem bent on shattering what Prime Minister Lester Pearson recently described as "the Anglo-Saxon crust, the old grey Canadian tradition...
...Uncle Tom." At the height of the Tampa riots this month, Community Relations Commission Director James Hammond cannily located five Negro gang leaders, all but one of them with police records, outfitted them with white helmets and arm bands, and persuaded them to preach calm and restraint in the streets (TIME, June 23). As the volunteer patrol grew to 150, the leaders were astonished at its popularity. "In my neighborhood," said one, "as many as five or six guys would share one helmet. They'd say, 'Hey, man, it's my turn to wear that...
...most Western businessmen are concerned, the record-in the broader sense-is hardly encouraging. Only a handful of U.S. companies have significant operations in Japan. Since the war, other hopefuls have been kept at arm's length with a tangle of capital regulations, bureaucratic delays, and impossible conditions. When Texas Instruments Inc. last year asked permission to set up a subsidiary to make integrated circuits, the government said O.K.-as long as it went fifty-fifty with a Japanese firm, agreed to limits on production and sales, and handed over valuable patents to other Japanese manufacturers. Naturally, Texas Instruments...
...Foyt had covered 3,251 miles at a record average speed of 135.4 m.p.h.-10 m.p.h. faster than the old mark set by last year's winning Ford Mark II. In the winner's circle, Gurney sprayed champagne on Henry Ford II-and Foyt waved an arm at a group of beaming Ford executives. "Well," he announced, "we saved those guys' jobs again...
...boots. Pauline Trigère offers the medieval look with hooded neckpieces that come off to reveal deep V necklines in close-fitting, floor-length gowns with long sleeves. For lady football fans, there are Geoffrey Beene"touchdown" dresses - long, sequined sacks in purple with yellow shoulder patches or arm stripes and big numerals on the front, just like overextended football jerseys. Rudi Gernreich is pushing a combination of what he calls the "Renaissance page quality" and the astronaut look, mixing his capes with Layne Nielsen's visored helmets, or putting together a long corduroy coachman's coat...