Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents were motorcycle racers, and Jill is well aware of the risks involved. "When Mum came to have me, she nearly died. She'd been so shaken up inside. It gets a girl in the tummy." To protect her own tummy, Jill wears a g-in.-wide "body belt," but she still takes a beating elsewhere. Last year in Scotland, she fractured a kneecap. In Wales, Jill suffered through a series of bizarre misfortunes. Stuck in a deep bog, she had to drag her 3OO-lb. cycle out of the mud. When her bike hit a bad bump, Jill...
Such unstinting European praise has greeted Soprano Lear and Baritone Stewart ever since they stopped knocking truitlessly on impresarios' doors in the U.S. four years ago. Schooled in borscht belt hotels and summer stock, they both won Fulbright scholarships and in 1957 entered Berlin's Hochschule für Musik. There they were discovered by Director Carl Ebert of the Berlin City Opera (predecessor of the Deutsche Opera Berlin), who signed them both for his company. Their debuts-Stewart's as Escamillo in Carmen in 1958. Lear's as the Composer in Ariadne the next year...
Citizens of the Soviet farm belt apparently either ignore orders or embarrass everyone by following them to the letter. In a speech last June in Central Asia, Khrushchev cried: "Comrades, you should do everything to develop herds of horses for meat. I don't need to tell you that horse meat is tasty and nourishing." A Tashkent newspaper last week complained that some Uzbek farmers had taken Khrushchev at his word and had rushed 18 thoroughbreds and three pedigreed stallions straight from the local race track to the slaughterhouse...
Although Detroit now fits all its cars with seat-belt mountings, most drivers have proved reluctant to spend the few extra dollars to buy the belts themselves. Despite their proven value in reducing injury in case of accident, many owners just don't like the belts cluttering up the front seat. Last week, taking matters into its own hands. Wisconsin became the first state to order seat belts installed on all 1962 autos sold there. The Federal Government also specifies seat-belt mountings on its vehicles, but so far only a few agencies-Commerce. Labor, Health. Education and Welfare...
...least an hour before most Britons), keeps his office door ajar (to "see who goes to the bathroom"), first-names his protocol-conscious associates. One of Garrels' big problems will be matching last year's record turnover of $60 million in the face of government belt tightening. Garrels feels that the British economy "lacks fat." Says he: "Whenever it gets rolling, the government steps in to control it. It's just like pushing a pendulum at the wrong time...