Word: calendars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preferably fullscale, formal summits complete with swarms of presidential airplanes, motorcades sirening through flag-draped streets, and earphones for simultaneous translation. So far this year, there have been nine major conclaves on the African continent, and there would have been more but for the simple confines of the calendar. There is just no way for everybody to talk at once...
...night, Ramoo shuffles down to the village's sole radio receiver, listens to the state-owned All-India Radio, which helps him to forget his debt to the village moneylender. Now and then he attends one of the thousand torchlit religious fairs that dominate the Indian calendar. There he delights in the wit of storytellers reciting one or another of the ageless, adventurous Hindu myths...
Last week Gordon's clock finally reached the marketplace. Sold by the Sessions Clock Co. for $19.95 and coyly named "The Lady," it is designed to aid memory and math in the practice of the rhythm method of birth control. Essentially, it is a calendar clock with refinements. First, the lady of the house calculates her shortest and longest menstrual cycles. After consulting a simplified table that comes with the instructions, she turns, pulls and pushes the clock's "cycle dial" until she has locked into it information concerning her period of probable fertility. At the beginning...
...bosoms were sometimes bared in flickering film orgies; in the '30s, Norma Shearer in the sheerest of slips was enough to make temperatures simmer. World War II G.I.s strained at the sight of Lana Turner in a sweater. Then came Marilyn Monroe's enamel-textured calendar shot and Brigitte Bardict's nudity-with-towel, and most barriers were down...
...trial was originally scheduled for April 22, but a crowded court calendar forced postponement until last Monday. But Cronin was unable to appear because of another engagement and the court continued the case until June...