Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ringo was pushed down and kicked. What had the Beatles done? They had failed to show up at a scheduled luncheon with the wife of the President, Imelda Marcos. (The lads later claimed they were never invited.) Even a formal apology by the British embassy couldn't cool Philippine tempers. And the boys did nothing to help their image when they finally returned to London. "I didn't even know they had a President," sniffed Lennon. "If we ever go back, it will be with an H-bomb...
...royal bubble-top limousine rolled through the city, a 12-lb. chunk of concrete was tossed at the car from a fourth-story window, miraculously glancing off the hood. Later that day a woman bounced a beer bottle off the bubble-top. The Queen never lost her cool. 'Tough car," she quipped as she finished her tour...
...Laugh at Distress." Responding to industry and congressional pressures to cool the fight, the Federal Reserve last week took a small step to make it unprofitable for commercial banks to pay high rates for certificates of deposit; it raised the reserves that banks must stash away against large time deposits from 4% to 5%. That only infuriated the board's critics. "An invisible crumb from the rich man's table," fumed Chairman Wright Patman of the House Banking Committee, "a horselaugh at people in distress...
...cause of all this excitement was the simple soybean, the hottest item in the seething U.S. commodities market. Last week futures for soybeans, soybean oil and soybean meal set seasonal records after a month of wild trading. A cool speculator who decided to hold on to his contracts for the month could have tripled his money. In trading last week price changes twice reached the permissible daily limit of 10? per bu., and to take the heat out of the market the Board of Trade has doubled in stages the margin required of a trader...
...Endless Summer. To surfboard enthusiasts, a new wave film is an epic celebrating the cool of a bronzed athlete atop a ten-foot slab of polyurethane foam, shooting through a tunnel of sea-green water formed by a breaker's curl. "The ultimate thing in surfing is to be covered up by the wave," says Bruce Brown, a blond, 28-year-old Californian who probably qualifies as the world's foremost exponent of pleasure before business. A Bergman of the boards, Brown makes his pleasures pay, and has pushed his income into a fun-filled six-figure bracket...