Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attractive, wealthy intellectual and bon vivant who zips around in a Mercedes 300 SL sports car and goes in for strenuous sports (skin diving, skiing, brown belt in judo). He favors a far-out wardrobe that includes pastel shirts, trilby hats and green leather overcoats. He is a bachelor, and his fondness for pretty women is no secret. Considering these attributes, the last thing one would expect him to be is a politician, especially in Canada. Yet that is Pierre Elliott Trudeau's most recent profession. At 46, after only three years in Parliament and one year as Minister...
...optimistic. "I can't see much hope of stopping them from coming north," he says. "The chances are that they'll reach Panama in a few years, and then come on to the U.S." McGregor believes that the long, cold winters of the U.S. snow belt would prove fatal to the Africans but that they will probably survive and thrive in California and most of the Southeast. Nonetheless, McGregor remains philosophical. The Africans are mean, and "they do sting like hornets, " he says. "But after all, we've learned to live with hornets, haven...
Modeling Dough. What causes the stress in the plane of a Rouse belt, resulting in quakes, volcanism and mountain building? In the Mines Magazine, the Colorado scientists suggest that both interplanetary and glactic magnetic fields interact with the earth's magnetic field, thus tugging on the earth's iron core. But the core is prevented from responding to extraterrestrial magnetic pull by the inertia of the rotating mantle that surrounds it. The resulting conflict sets up stresses in the boundary between the mantle and the core that are released in planes tangent to the core...
...help Lord & Taylor launch a collection of 22 pieces copied from his spring and summer show. The lift-off was phenomenal. Some of the originals in fact, never made it to the show; Mrs. Alan Jay Lerner made off with a $1,000 caped white dress with a jeweled belt before it hit the runway. In five days the store sold copies of more than 400 dresses ($90 to $175) and 300 coats ($160 to $495), plus hundreds of shoes and berets. Favorite accessory: a six-foot-long floating Isadora Duncan sea of bias silk twill. One item too special...
...father came upstair screaming, telling me to get out of the bed, and lets go. Go where I asked. Usual when he starts screaming I was in for a beating. But this time I didn't see a belt, so I was off in that department. I was dress and ready to go before he could say (my name). He had a speech dilemma. I ran downstairs, and asked Mom what's wrong with Pop. She only reply: What is right with...