Word: banana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boil a can of soup. Then they go jeeping across an open field in pursuit of a terrified farmer-whom they try to lasso. And all the while they recollect in flashback the crazy things they did while they were courting-like, say, the time Leo peeled a banana, slipped it in the breast pocket of Jack's best suit, gave him a hearty slap on the chest...
Lisa has achieved this distinction by scrambling harder than six monkeys peeling the same banana. One night last week, she taped interviews with 1) Adlai Stevenson, 2) the suddenly unemployed employees at the New York Mirror, and 3) Dr. Benjamin Spock-all within three hours, dragging mobile cameramen behind her by their sagging tongues. Next day she trapped the Russian Cosmonauts under the stars at Hayden Planetarium...
President Villeda Morales, a pediatrician turned reform politician, almost made it; the coup came only ten days before elections to choose a new President. It undid six years of hard work to change the banana republic's image of mud-hut misery, one-crop economics and machine gun politics...
...Skeleton's Showing. To win such willing ears, Muzak keeps things simple and undemanding, guided always by its sole esthetic law: music must be unobtrusive. Ensuring that Muzak never intrudes, Program Director Donald M. O'Neill, the top banana of the piped-in music world, frowns on jazz, vocal music of any kind, classics, instrumental solos, everything set in minor keys (too sad), and anything else that lasts more than three minutes. O'Neill, his ten musicologists and his 35 arrangers, all work for a "functional sound" that fits into their "stimulus chart." Whenever they notice something...
...Peace Corps story [July 5] says that June Jensby in North Borneo taught the natives how to make jam from bananas. I have never heard of a banana jam but it sounds good. May we have the recipe? THEO. SLADE St. Petersburg...