Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lunch, for government employees and large private corporations in the nation's ten biggest cities. Unfortunately, most downtown areas were woefully short of lunch counters or cafeterias to feed the hungry hordes, but most Chileans, for the present at least, seemed disposed to bring lunch in a paper bag, or wait in line. "It is rather expensive," moaned Jorge Soto, a government clerk who earns $53 a month. "I have to pay 600 for a one-course meal, and this will cost me 20% of my salary." Even less popular was another new rule. To make sure that Chileans...
...island's edge was eased as drivers learned to give the whole area a wide berth during critical hours. And at the better shops, plenty of wealthy clients were still showing up by cab (sniffed Gucci's sales manager: "A woman who wants a Gucci bag is not going to settle for something at her neighborhood store."). But by then, the uproar from the small shopkeepers was too loud to go unnoticed at city hall. Caving in, Traffic Commissioner Pala first reopened almost half the isola to private cars, put part of the Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Square...
There was lots to be found in the wholesome bag, too, notably Julie Andrews and the tinkly, tweeting movie track of the Sound of Music, the year's big bestseller. The newest sound was produced by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, a trumpeting mixture of mariachi and Dixieland. Jazz continued to flail around in various directions, not knowing how seriously to take itself. Perhaps the year's best jazz record was Miles Davis' E S.P., combining a thoughtful questing with virtuosity...
Died. George H. Dixon, 65, author of the syndicated "Washington Scene," a grab bag column of nonpolitical cocktail-party and press-conference observations appearing daily since 1944; following a heart attack; in Washington. Sometimes sharp, more often corny, Dixon took aim at "the guy in the silk hat," up to and including the President of the U.S., which led him to describe 1965 as "the year of incision" and L.B.J. as "the abdominal showman...
...primarily medical, was also very public. Nearly all of their important body functions-from thinking to urinating-were monitored through sensors attached to their bodies, recorded on instruments in the spacecraft, or relayed to Houston where batteries of doctors pored over telemetered data. Each man was required to bag and date his own solid and liquid wastes, to be turned over to doctors at flight's end. For want of a more descriptive term, Borman and Lovell described their extended mission in the cramped capsule as "two weeks in a men's room...