Word: centerfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weak market, and was bought at the outset largely by speculators who lusted after a quick profit and sold speedily when it did not materialize. Shareholders who have held on are in for a different kind of disappointment. They had been promised stock certificates decorated with the bare-bosomed centerfold photo of Willy Rey, last February's Playmate of the Month, but Playboy officials have sent the prototype certificate back to the engravers for some retouching to make it less revealing. They are worried that the straitlaced New York Stock Exchange would object...
...Phantom jets are catapulted off the carriers to keep the Badgers from getting too close. The Phantoms always approach gradually and at an angle, sometimes drawing abreast of the Soviet planes. On one such occasion, a Phantom pilot was surprised to see his Soviet counterpart hold up a centerfold from, of all things, Playboy magazine...
...movement has not produced much humor. But the April issue of Off Our Backs offered readers a Playboy-type centerfold showing a bearded Mr. April fetchingly posed nude on a shaggy fur rug. In Berkeley, when an organization called Women for the Free Future burned a diploma to symbolize their claim that the university failed to teach women anything relevant to their situation in society, they also incinerated a Barbie doll, a book by Norman Mailer (regarded as an arch-male chauvinist by the movement), birth-control pills, the Bible, and Good Housekeeping's list of the Ten Most Admired...