Word: carding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going in Profile. In 1946, Mitchum came into style. "After the war, suddenly there was this thing for ugly heroes," he says, "so I started going around in profile." Since then, the Mitchum legend has suggested that 5 Card Stud would be an apt title for his autobiography. By reputation, he can hold his liquor better than Dean Martin, and has had as many boudoir invitations as Frank Sinatra. Yet he has remained married to his first wife for 28 years. Though worth at least $5,000,000, he lives in a comparatively modest, four-bedroom, ivy-covered house...
...postage-stamp stage, a man and a woman appear, wearing only card board and painted fig leaves. The woman also wears a black rubber bra with red rims designed to resemble huge sunglasses. What follows is verbal love play and a kind of spoofy striptease in which the twosome gingerly play on the supposed skittishness of the audience. After a mock wedding ceremony in front of a barber pole ("Do you, Pandy, take this girl Mandy, because she is randy?"), a climactic libation scene occurs. Pandy and Mandy put on green mitts the size of baseball gloves and sponge each...
...Last week a top-level American Bankers Association commit tee called for an end to traditional certificates. The committee, composed of bank and stock-exchange officials, announced that by the end of 1969, it hoped to replace all the certificates of actively traded issues with a standard-sized punch card. Every stock or bond issue will have an eight-digit identification number that will be used on all wire communications, transactions, transfers and dividend claims. Standard & Poor's will spend close to $1,000,000 coding some 1,000,000 stocks and bond issues into two directories, each...
Elliott handed in his draft card at the October 16 Arlington Street Church Resistance Service. In January the freshman from St. Johnsbury, Vermont received a 1-A classification. Early April brought Elliott an induction notice...
...whips out his bursars card and waves it at her as she is yelling the above putdown...