Word: blanketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alimony, says Miami Circuit Judge Thomas Lee Jr., "is like trying to take one blanket and stretch it over two beds." It is also one of the main legal skirmish lines in the battle of the sexes. "It's not fair to me or the two children," says Linda Sue Beasley, 24, an attractive Indianapolis, Ohio, divorcée who receives $30 a month. "Hell, I should know," says a Los Angeles stockbroker. "I've been through three divorces and didn't get one fair shake...
...more and more excited and finally was put in the "box," an empty room "with cement all over, small windows with bars and an iron door. I was told to take off all my clothes . . . it was cold. I was not allowed to have water. I was given one blanket. There was nothing to urinate in. I screamed all night . . . ." He left after a week and went to another hospital...
...North Koreans. Vance avoided the verbal pyrotechnics which might have jeopardized the Pueblo talks, but at the same time the squawking South Koreans got essentially what they wanted. Vance's mere presence--and the 200 jet fighters the U.S. rushed to Korea--had the effect of renewing the blanket American commitment...
...Blanket commitments, of course, are precisely what the U.S. cannot afford at the moment. Our pledge to defend Korea is not a new one, but age is not the test of necessity or desirability. The Koreans are far from defenseless. Their 600,000 man army--according to American propaganda, one of Asia's best--is nearly twice the size of their Northern enemy's. And though Korea depends on U.S. industry for weapons and some supplies, this hardly explains why two U.S. divisions patrol one third the length of the 38th parallel armistice line. The need for greater flexibility...
Elizabeth Taylor? "She looks like two small boys fighting under a mink blanket," says Hollywood Designer Mr. Blackwell, 42, creator and promoter of the annual Worst-Dressed Woman Awards. Even so, Liz ranks only fourth on Blackwell's current list of sartorial sad sacks, behind Barbra Streisand ("Today's flower child gone to seed in a cabbage patch"), Julie Christie ("Daisy Mae lost in Piccadilly Circus") and Jayne Meadows ("Barnum and Bailey in a telephone booth"). Julie Andrews, Carol Channing, Ann Margret, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Raquel Welch are the other distinguished dowdies...