Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sending Catholic children to public schools, argued Casey, will help "avoid most of the less pleasant by-products of separatism and inbreeding." Moreover, ''we will all be relieved of the financial strain that so distorts our devotions and parish programs. The parishes will not have to erect the enormous bingo signs that disfigure all the church lawns in certain areas, nor run a lot of novenas for palpably profit motives. Sunday Mass will not take on the quality of a fly trap designed to hold the people until three collections are taken...
Plastic Green Thumbs. In hotels, offices, bars and restaurants, artificial blossoms have just about replaced the real thing. Many hotels order their phonies under a lease arrangement that calls for a seasonal change of blossoms to avoid having their lobbies decorated with poinsettias in July. In San Francisco some artists use the plastics for models in their still lifes. Texas housemaids dust the flowers weekly instead of changing the water daily. On the West Coast, green-thumbed weekend gardeners have been known to hoodwink their neighbors with lavish beds of plastic tulips. Tired of watching their natural flowers succumb...
Husbands complain that only 50 pubs have been built in all twelve of the cities. Teen-agers are bored because private enterprise has shied away from building movie houses, skating rinks and bowling alleys until there is a sufficient teen-age population to support them. The youngsters avoid the archaeological clubs, Young Conservative Clubs, the teen-age branches of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. "This town is a dump," says a 17-year-old in Stevenage. "Unless you like walking around looking at new buildings. There's certainly not much else to do." In the U.S., sociologists have found...
...million a year). A kinetic promoter, Rolley moved into lotions in 1947 on borrowed money, sold out to Botany Industries, Inc., for $2,000,000 in 1955, stayed on as boss. Now rich and seeking relaxation, Rolley has turned over the presidency to his assistant, Bill Randall, 41. To avoid boredom, Rolley has lined up a job that will support fewer lawyers and tax collectors: Rolley Co. sales chief in California...
...foremost female impersonator in the all-male Chinese classical drama, won him worldwide applause-his 1930 U.S. tour brought him honorary degrees from two U.S. colleges-and earned him as much as $4,000 per half-hour; of a heart attack; in Peking. He defiantly grew a mustache to avoid entertaining China's Japanese conquerors during World War II, but traveled the world for the Communists, was visited during his fatal illness by another onetime tan (male actress)-Red China's Premier Chou Enlai...