Word: barefooted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just a barefoot girl on Madison Avenue, yearning for her own ad agency, when she sweetied Braniff Airways into handing over its $6,500,000 advertising account in 1966. Since then, Mary Wells, 39, chief flag raiser at Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc., has zapped the buying public with a campaign for Braniff's rainbow-colored planes and Pucci-pantsed stewardesses, lured such other clients to her lair as Alka Seltzer, Benson & Hedges and American Motors. But most of all she wowed Braniff President Harding Lawrence, 47, who offered his hand to Mary after withdrawing it last year from...
From the air, reported TIME'S Houston Bureau Chief Ben Gate, the region was a churning, chocolate sea of muck that overwhelmed scores of communities in its path and obliterated every landmark within hundreds of square miles. Around the clock, Army and Coast Guard helicopters plucked wretched, barefoot refugees from the water, leaving their homes and possessions to the floods and their livestock to hovering buzzards. Evacuees far exceeded 100,000 by week's end, and estimates of the homeless went as high as 1,000,000. The full death toll will not be known until the flood...
Classes on body awareness are run by Bernard Gunther, a sometime weight lifter and yoga student, in order to "get people to let go of an excessively verbal image of themselves." After having his students stand barefoot on a sheet and feel the grass under it, he pairs them off, asks them to "converse" by slapping each other's arms and shoulders. In "the Gunther sandwich," one student lies face-down on a sheet; two others kneel beside him, pound his legs, buttocks and back with their hands. Then the three stretch out and cling to each other. Gunther...
Delegates to the five-day meeting, 2,000 strong, ranged from Trotskyites to Maoists, from bearded antiwar pro testers to barefoot poverty workers. Their slogan : "Don't Mourn for Amer ica -Organize!" Martin Luther King urged that next year's elections be turned into a "referendum on the war" - and Pediatrician-Protester Dr. Benjamin Spock declared his willingness to head the ticket. Such ambitions were quickly doused in a power grab by 400 militant Negro delegates...
October, when all the neighbors gathered to press apples and sample the vintage. Hogs and ducks and dogs all had their role, but center stage went to a pretty barefoot lass-in the words of a folk song Mount undoubtedly knew -"sucking cider through a straw...