Word: cleaner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rubinstein. There was a concert to be played in Boston, so he packed his suitcases, not forgetting a shoe bag crammed with the good-luck charms that his four children have given him over the years?baby shoes, a turquoise marble, a set of jacks, a pipe-cleaner doll, an acorn, a crumbled plaster angel. He put on his fur-lined blue suede shoes and his long navy blue overcoat with the wide Persian lamb lapels, cocked his black beaver fedora rakishly over one eye, and headed for the airport...
...will bear children so much stabler than the neurotic children of my generation." Never tying one though to another, she hurries on: "Children of working mothers don't really care that their mothers aren't at home all day. They don't really care who runs the vacuum cleaner...
From then on, Schlesinger scooped up information like a vacuum cleaner, recording everything on a sheaf of white 8-in. by 4-in. cards that he carried in an inside jacket pocket. On weekends he transferred his notes to white foolscap, eventually filled three black leatherette binders with nearly 400 single-spaced pages. He had intended to put them at Kennedy's disposal. Instead, they became the nucleus for his own book...
...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...
...mother-in-law's stove, got the idea of producing pastries in easy-to-heat foil pans; this year his Aunt Fanny's Baking Co. will sell $6,000,000 worth of sweet rolls. Cincinnati's Joseph McVicker, 35, who took a lump of wallpaper cleaner and made it into one of the nation's most popular toys, Play-Doh, is a millionaire. Recently he sold out his business and started a second career by entering the Harvard Divinity School...