Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of his speech before an assembly of metal workers in Havana, Cuba's Fidel Castro, 40, railed against the evils of creeping bureaucracy in his island paradise. Then he digressed for a while to savor one of the glorious advances of his revolution: ice-cream production. "Our ice cream can compete with the best ice creams in any part of the world," drooled Fidel, as the workers cheered. "Today we produce 26 flavors, and it's worth emphasizing that not once has one of the flavors failed. Never has the peak of quality been allowed to drop...
...logical follow-up to his messages on youth and crime, President Johnson last week sent Congress two more of his omnibus proposals for improving the quality of American life. While the crime message skimmed the cream from the 340-page report of his own commission on crime and offered altogether new suggestions for action (TIME, Feb. 17), the civil rights and consumer messages represented, in large measure, proposals that Congress had seen before...
...sell up to 5,000 packs of cigarette paper a month, count as regular customers Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and by now, say the owners, "we've reached the Madison Avenue crowd." Among their best-selling items: Japanese colored balls, kaleidoscopes, avocado hand cream, Mini Marvels (stamp-size comic books) and diffraction disks-small metallic decorations to be worn on the middle of the forehead...
Lindner is a pungent social observer. His girls are garbed in the hip gear of today's pelvic underground: miniskirts, black leather vests and striped stockings. They lick ice cream cones but seldom smile. They are exotic exaggerations, vinyl Venuses in modern Threepenny Opera costumes, flagrant in their red fright wigs and monster cupid lips. His portrait of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim has her decked out in butterfly sunglasses with bare breasts to boot...
...years, Cliffies have been allowed to eat in the graduate cafeteria as an alternative to having lunch in their own dorms. They are given an allotment of 80 cents per day, which was ample in the days when hamburgers were 30 cents, cottage cheese a nickel, and ice cream and fruit, only a dime...