Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BATH FESTIVAL (June 19-29), 106 miles west of London, is guided by Yehudi Menuhin through a chamber and symphonic series that includes Mozart's one-act opera, The Impresario, Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat and a program of Viennese waltzes...
...Take a Bath. The Sorbonne became a haven for many who were wounded during the riots and who feared police prosecution if they were taken to the hospitals. An emergency medical service was set up with its own ambulance brigade, composed of every imaginable sort of vehicle. It had its own nurses and doctors, many drawn from the medical school. In spite of unfounded rumors concerning venereal diseases and even plague, a professor at the School of Medicine who called himself Dr. Kahn (nearly everyone used pseudonyms for fear of police reprisals) had only one prescription to give...
...then we were the beats, and then the Love Generation, an then the Flower Power People. The hippy, mini, teenie-boppers who wouldn't cut their hair or take a bath. We were many things to many people. Black Power advocates, peace marchers, community organizers, desperate student power desperados, and members of many movements. We signed petitions to eradicate the II-S deferment an then petitions to reinstate it. We circulated "We Won't Go" statements and "We Might Not Go" advertisements, and "We'd Rather Not Go" petitions...
...experiment, FHA recently backed inexpensive houses built by half a dozen manufacturers of mobile homes. Guerdon Industries came up with a two-bedroom, one-bath model, 12 ft. wide and 46 ft. long, that sells for a mere $4,210 in Ashburn, Ga. To keep the price that low, the city relaxed its requirements for street paving and foundations and FHA waived a few of its ordinary minimum standards...
...SNOWED IN SUMMER, by Florence Heide and Sylvia Van Clief, illustrated by Kenneth Longtemps (Funk & Wagnalls; $2.95). It is the hottest day of the year in New York City, too hot to do anything, so hot that Carrie puts ice cubes in her bath. But at nightfall, Jack Frost comes out of hiding, and Carrie and her doll, Loretta Cecelia, and all the other people in New York awake next morning to find everything covered with a blanket of snow. The story is unusually long, but the illustrations are captivating...