Word: calendars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Malaysia are now accustomed to paying visits to mosques and temples on Sunday-not because it has any religious significance to them but simply because urban businesses are closed. The British heritage of Sunday off prevails in India and Pakistan. Japan, which until 1876 used the Chinese lunar calendar with no uniformity of holidays, shifted that year to the seven-day week with Sundays off. Buddhists and Shintoists readily accepted the change, although many businesses ignored it until a 1947 labor-standard law required that workers get one day a week...
...screen into a painting. Or at least so thinks Tom Wesselmann, 34, who fiddles with the girl who doesn't exist, the supersex symbol, the Great American Nude, and sets her in homey seraglio scenes decorated with real radiators. Lift the Venetian blind, and there is a calendar painting of a Japanese harbor. Or, as in one recent Nude, the whole scene is stamped out of multicolored translucent plastic and glows from within by electric lights...
...which cost up to several hundred dollars and require several men to transport. The British are big on food hampers, desk equipment, pen and pencil sets and cocktail accessories, have stepped up their overseas giving as part of their export drive. Germany's most common gift is the calendar, followed by leather goods, such metal goods as pocket knives and scissors and desk equipment. Everybody seems to be fond of giving such gadgets as a blinking alarm clock or a pocket vacuum cleaner...
Dictating letters to cancel out the rest of his 1965 appointments calendar, Dwight Eisenhower, 75, continued a steady recovery from the heart attack that struck during his golfing vacation at the Augusta National Golf Club. Out of the oxygen tent, Ike resumed a favorite hobby, painting, was wheeled out to the porch of his suite at the Fort Gordon, Ga., Army hospital and told reporters he was "fine, fine." At week's end, doctors arranged to move the patient on Monday to Washington's Walter Reed Hospital for convalescence...
...liked it so much she never went back to the class room. Enjoying a well-known byline by the time she was 23, she joined a race with two other New York reporters to see who could get around the world fastest by commercial airline. By clock and calendar, Dorothy came in second; in the contest for personal publicity she finished first. The Journal was so pleased that it gave her a Broadway column and a free hand. No one ever edited Dorothy; when a copyreader once had the temerity to change one of her sentences, she tried to have...