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Word: coolers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Furniture? In Los Angeles, in addition to artificial grass, the well-to-do often rent their minks when they travel to cooler climates. "I can't mention any names," says Rent-a-Mink's Lillian Feinberg confidentially, "but a lot of our furs went to Washington for the inaugural." Many stars rent automobiles, for as business and professional men learned long ago, renting meant none of the headaches of car ownership, and the monthly statements make for handy documentation of business expenses. Some people who have difficulty obtaining automobile insurance have no such problem with rented cars. Claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: You-Rent-lt | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

...count him six times a day." Concluded Plum: "I would say that a prison is all right for a visit, but I wouldn't live there if you gave it to me." Bertie Wooster could hardly have put it better after a night in the Bow Street cooler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Plum Sees It Through | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...game, the more he lost. His cat-and-mouse demand for "indemnification" rather than the "exchange" he originally proposed revolted Latin Americans, who believe strongly in human dignity. His loud threats of "revolutionary tribunals" for the prisoners if his demands were not met only increased the horror. Cooler minds, one of them most likely Moscow's supervisor Che Guevara, apparently got through to Castro, for Castro piped down after a few days. By then great damage had been done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Propaganda Backfire | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

Once the Cuban trouble began, Russians outside the University--from elevator operators to Moscow subway riders--were "perceptively cooler...

Author: By Gerald R. Davidson, | Title: Bainbridge Describes Difference In Russian Reception After Cuba | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...Somewhere over the just-awakening revelry of Las Vegas, at 45,000 ft., Walker and -55 Pilot Fitzhugh Fulton began their countdown prior to dropping the X-15 for its flight. Midway in the countdown, Walker interrupted by radio: "We've lost our liquid-nitrogen cooler. My mixing chamber quit." Without the cooler both his special flight suit and his cockpit would turn into bake ovens in the searing, supersonic flight to come. As the mother plane circled slowly, Walker jiggled the mixer handle. "I've worn out my fingers," he complained. Then: "That was touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Both Sides of the Ball? | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

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