Word: bike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from size 60 pants to size 36 in one year: "I can get on my knees and pray better." Brooklyn Bookkeeper Alex Galietti, 29, finds that after losing 106 lbs., "I'm doing things I could never do as a teen-ager-skating and bike riding...
...Even Bike Money. French industry shuts down almost completely during August, giving workers four weeks' vacation, and in almost every other European country workers get at least three weeks away from the job. German companies provide their vacationing employees with extra pocket money, as much as 30% of regular pay, while Italian firms run vacation facilities specifically for employees. The average American must work for a company for ten years before getting three weeks, gets only one week during his first three years, and has never heard of extra vacation money or company resorts...
...they work at an open-hearth furnace, at a high altitude, or in an old malarial zone, though malaria has seldom struck since Mussolirii drained the swamps. The Belgians get extras to cover the cost of commuting by train, and the hardy Dutch, who cycle to work, are given "bike money...
...heroine (Beryl Reid) has for years played the part of a kindly rural nurse. Sister George, in a sentimentally bucolic radio serial about a small English country town. In the serial, Sister George performs good deeds and put-puts around on her motor bike singing hymns with homey off-pitch piety. Off the air, in her London flat, Sister George is a horsy, cigar-chewing, gin-swilling, bull-roaring lesbian who coarsely flays her pliant companion, "Childie...
Sister George is in a vicious swivet because her role is to be edited out of the show. Mrs. Mercy Croft (Lally Bowers), a BBC program manager, comes bearing the unmerciful news: a ten-ton truck will collide with Sister George's motor bike, and the entire country town will go into mourning at the loss of their beloved nurse...