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...billion loan to Britain to enable it to prop up the pound. Britain needed the money to repay the $750 million that it has already used out of the $3 billion lent it by central banks last November, when the pound was being attacked-and to provide a cushion that would make unnecessary any further drawing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: The Global Finance Men: Who They Are, How They Work | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...jumped ahead in the third on three Harvard errors and a single, before miller's homer gave Scott a cushion. The 6-4 righthander kept the Eagles in order after that, holding B.C. without a hit until the eight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Nine Topples B.C., 10-5 | 5/12/1965 | See Source »

...game is up. No longer required to cinch, clinch, cushion or cover up, the new lightweight underwear makes only the slightest pretext at serious figure control, concentrates on "caressing" the body, rather than curtailing it, on "skimming" across the bosom, not shaping it, on "careening" around the bottom, not controlling it. Presumed at first to be gags, items like Rudi Gernreich's no-bra bra and Warner's body stockings instead have proved pacesetters for a rash of stretchable flesh-colored garments that look like a second skin, feel far silkier than the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Facts of the Matter | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...struck the quarter-hour and cannon boomed, a gun carriage emerged from Westminster Hall, where Churchill's body had lain in state for three days and nights. The coffin on the gun carriage was shrouded with the Union Jack, on which rested a black velvet cushion bearing the diamond and gold regalia of the Order of the Garter. More than 100 sailors of the Royal Navy-Churchill's favorite service-drew the gun carriage and its burden forward at a measured 65 paces to the minute.* Each minute, the cannon boomed their soldierly lament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Requiem for Greatness | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...only a couch, Joe," one yelled from the window, as he dumped it outside, cushion by cushion. The frame was thoroughly axed in the room, taken downstairs in a freight elevator, and set under an open hydrant on DeWolfe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conflagration Sweeps Quincy House Couch | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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