Word: blue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tinged with a tomorrow-we-die spirit. He seemed in private more fatigued by the demands of his public image. As LIFE reports this week, Kennedy would be in a room and feel people pressing in on him. His aides would hear him mumble "T.M.B.S."?Too Many Blue Suits ?and they would know that it was time to clear the room...
Accordingly, Phillips would work toward a Republican majority* by embracing disgruntled white former Democrats. He sees voting strength in the suburbanites who flee the cities when the blacks move in. He would plow the Midwestern blue-collar enclaves, where white lower-middle-class voters fear economic competition from ambitious blacks. Special emphasis would be given to what he calls the "sun belt"-prospering areas such as Florida, Texas, Arizona and California-where middle-class whites cherish their freshly earned fortunes...
...Detroit, Cleveland and 120 other municipalities fill Erie with 1.5 billion gallons of inadequately treated wastes, including nitrates and phosphates. These chemicals act as fertilizer for growths of algae that suck oxygen from the lower depths and rise to the surface as odoriferous green scum. Commercial and game fish-blue pike, whitefish, sturgeon, northern pike-have nearly vanished, yielding the waters to trash fish that need less oxygen. Weeds proliferate, turning water frontage into swamp. In short, Lake Erie is in danger of dying by suffocation...
...Lerner takes his readers along as Carol--a summie--and Tim--a Harvard student whom veteran observers recognize as a local movie impressario--wend their way from the Blue Parrot to Tim's Dana St. apartment and a happening on the Charles. Carol sends her circle pin skimming into the river...
Gallery C extended a warm, week-long invitation to ignore this mandate. From Paris, Sculptor Lygia Clark imported two powder-blue space suits of her own design. After a man and a woman entered the suits and Miss Clark sealed the sightless helmets, the occupants found that their only access to each other was through zippered pockets strategically located over the erogenous zones. When the man opened one of her pockets, he felt a hairy male chest rather than a soft female bosom; the woman, in turn, reached out to touch a rubber breast. Somewhat south of these pockets were...