Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often funny, sometimes vulgar, and full of invective. After several plugs on the Jack Paar show, Enemy zoomed to a hard-cover sale of 150,000 copies. Its sequel, May This House Be Safe from Tigers, reached the top of the bestseller list last week, rocketed along at a clip of 1,500 copies a day. Plainly, Alexander King threatens never willingly to become an ex-autobiographer...
Whenever he managed to break through the tight security, though, Eisenhower made a roaring hit with the Argentine public. Riding with Frondizi at a fast clip down the stately Avenue St. Martin, he insisted that the automobiles slow down, and objected when the crowd thickened and his escorts, a mounted troop of grenadiers dressed in Napoleonic uniforms, moved their horses around his car for protection. Waving the guardsmen aside, Ike greeted the dense crowds with a grin, and got a roar of welcome in return-a remarkable salute from the usually reserved Argentine public. The subdued chant of "Peron! Peron...
...chocolate milkshake in a paper cup which a friend handed her. A group of Australian hockey players squeezed in. "We'll be watching you in the next few days," promised Pat. The trainer of the Russian skating team swiveled into position before the Nixons, fastened a silver tie clip to the Vice President's collar. "Sputnik," he said, pointing to the engraving on the clasp. "We're so happy to see you," said Pat. "I have a memento for you." And she handed him a green ballpoint...
...Clip Joint. In Florence, Italy, tired of finding hairs in his soup, Pasquale Martoni sheared his wife's flowing tresses to scalp level, protested when haled to court for assault: "It was only a matter of hygiene...
Last week fashion houses wrote orders at the fastest clip since the era when the "New Look" dropped skirts more than a decade ago. Buyers were loading up because all signs point to a banner year, e.g., December business set records and January department-store sales are running 9% ahead of the year-ago rate. Some of the freest spenders in Manhattan came from cities that the steel-strike settlement helped most-Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Cleveland, Birmingham, Detroit. "The buyers have a lot of money, and they are spending it like mad," said Felix Lilienthal Jr., president of a company that...