Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's first full-blown spy nightspot. The fun is in the trappings, and few were left unsprung on opening night. Waitresses dressed in abbreviated black trenchcoats served drinks; red-vested bartenders whipped out fake automatics from their shoulder holsters to light customers' cigarettes. Rooms bore such names as Hari's (for Mata Hari) and M16; the bar was inevitably the Interpol, backed by a mammoth world map with clocks telling the time in Moscow, London and Hong Kong. A closed-circuit TV screen in each room scanned the outer "office." The walls were studded with Sten...
Marcos' grandfather taught the boy how to track wild animals in the mountains of Luzon. By the age of twelve, Ferdie was an expert pistol and rifle shot, and at 16 he became national champion in small-bore competition...
...first half of 1966, the industry sold a record 708,939 cars. Prospects were good for the second half as well. But, in July, the Labor government drastically tightened credit to help the ailing pound. Typically, the anti-inflationary measures bore down hard on car buying. The 25% auto-purchase tax was increased to 27½%, minimum down payments were hiked from 25% to 40%, and the time allowed for payments was cut from 27 to 24 months. British governments invariably excuse such controls by claiming that cars are just luxury items. What with the tough new rules, potential auto...
...starched proprieties of the Old South. Whether her honor needed avenging was a question that was never satisfactorily answered. On that September night, as Thalia Massie was making her solitary way home afoot, she was attacked by five "Hawaiian boys," brutally beaten and-so she claimed-raped. Her body bore evidence of the beating (a jaw broken in two places), but none of sexual assault...
...Mother complained to the principal that Rona was a brat. Little Rona was then ten years of age. She has since more or less grown up into her tristful 30s and written a mildly brattish, mildly famous book called The Best of Everything (TIME, Sept. 15, 1958), which bore down rather heavily on a young girl's discovery that men leave much to be desired...