Word: butters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago branch, all employees last month took a salary cut of from 5% to 10%. In San Francisco, the monthly take-home pay of some customers' men had slipped to a bare $150. Even in Manhattan, where the big brokerage houses can count on a steady, bread-and-butter flow of institutional security buying, brokers were canceling plans to buy new cars and working longer hours...
...outwaits a series of grotesque fellow-tourist suitors who make fools of them selves by groveling before the peanut-butter-and-raisin-bread-chomping child as if paying homage to a Greek goddess...
...price of liberty." Art and science are similar exercises in demonstration, not experiment. Instead of spontaneous sketching, the kids dutifully copy reproductions of the masters; Fuller shows scientific phenomena with a Sterno can and a toy physics kit. Fuller prepares lunch himself-usually canned soup, fruit, bread, butter and milk. The kids say grace in Russian, eat at their desks, and return their plates (scraped) to Fuller in the kitchen. If they stick to this Spartan routine through high school, Fuller is sure, colleges will shower them with "a multitude of scholarships." Exam for Parents. On Fuller's office...
...mining and steel, give Moscow top priority for East German manufactures. East German food production has fallen sharply in the past twelve months. Potatoes, once a staple, have been imported from the uncollectivized farms of Communist Poland; last week meat and sausage went on the ration list, to join butter, which has been strictly allocated for 18 months. For complainers, there was the ever-present fear of a Communist jail cell or a Communist pistol...
...buxom $300,000 Nefertiti, the glamour boat of the warmup trials, with ten wins and only two defeats; and Weatherly, an also-ran in the 1958 cup trials, which finally found her speed with canny Skipper Bus Mosbacher (TIME. July 13) at the helm. Even Nefertiti's butter-fingered crew could not seem to slow her down. In one race they fumbled a spinnaker overboard in their haste to get it flying, still breezed to victory. Only against Weatherly (seven wins, four losses) did Nefertiti run into heavy going. Twice, by crushing margins of more than four minutes...