Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uptake, too. When a young newsman asked the crony of Presidents and Prime Ministers whom he considered the greatest man of his age, Baruch barked: "The fellow who does his job every day. The mother who has children and gets breakfast. The fellow who keeps the streets clean. The Unknown Soldier. Millions...
Americans not only buy more cars than anyone, but spend far more time and money keeping them clean. This year they will spend $257 million to have their autos washed professionally, and countless millions of hours washing cars in their own driveways. While some 5,000 car-wash outfits are putting U.S. autos through 175 million washes this year, the car-wash industry is growing at the rate of 15 million wash jobs a year. Still, fewer than 20% of the nation's 84 million cars are cleaned regularly by car washes, and the industry wants nothing more than...
...Victors and The Long Ships, is married to Producer Alfredo Bini. He will have to produce a lot to finance Rosanna. Says she: "I am a very expensive girl. My husband will have to give me a houseful of servants if he wants a hot dinner and clean clothes now and then...
...offer such amenities as a four-course dinner for less than $2.50, worldwide telephone service, and multilingual secretaries at $1.50 an hour. There is even a female Silberputzer (silver cleaner) to keep chrome polished and to dust the aisles. On regular expresses, second-class passengers can count on spotlessly clean cars and hot meals in a diner. Last year 20,000 motorists stowed both themselves and their autos aboard overnight trains, slept their way to their destinations. No wonder the railroad hauls 45% of Germany's intercity passengers (v. 3% in the U.S.) and that a recent poll found...
...snotty little know-it-alls with African nationalist names: Jomo, Sekou, Mboya. But "Grandpa" fascinates them with stories of how Harlemites resisted all threats and blandishments, how they were impervious even to Radio Free Harlem, over which "Washington, D.C., Rose" seductively urged them to return to the comforts, clean suits and warm apartments of the Privileged People. Harlem's early heroes were the sit-in veterans like Foreign Minister Art Rustram, "who could sit-in, standin, lay-down, and stall-in with the best of them. When it came to a non-violent charge into some governor...