Word: flipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industrial designer and his actress wife, a woman composer in her mid-20s and her boy friend, a young couple married only a year, a marriage counselor, a middle-aged couple, and two psychiatrists. All had been chosen because, although they had neurotic problems, they were not likely to flip under the rigors of their therapeutic talkathon...
...that would really grab them where they lived. Where they lived, said Murray, was with the Supremes and the Righteous Brothers and Cannibal and the Headhunters. And in between sets, Murray would "lay on them some good words." Shriver bought it-all of it, even Murray's favorite flip phrase, "It's what's happening, baby," as the title...
Concentrated Beer. Impressed by the success of the flip-top cap, brewers are searching for other package improvements. Schlitz last week introduced an improved flip-top whose blunt edges are guaranteed not to slice hands, as earlier models often did. Anheuser-Busch also announced that it is shifting to aluminum cans from tin-plate, even though brewers admit privately that any kind of can is a poor container for retaining beer flavor. Because 50% of all beer is now sold in supermarkets, beer companies are designing packages that will stand out on store shelves, catch the eye of housewives...
...tiger suits. At Rome's Vallelunga auto race track last week, Esso wheeled out a caged circus tiger that stole the show. It has had a German pop singer record a rock 'n' roll song called Tiger in the Tank, with Tiger Rag on the flip side...
...campus, where it once was squaresville to flip for the rock scene, it now is the wiggiest of kicks. Brenda Lee, 20, a tot-sized (4 ft. 11 in., plus five inches of hair) rockette who developed her belting delivery as a high-school cheerleader, outranks Folk Singer Joan Baez and jazz's Ella Fitzgerald on the college popularity polls. "Rock really turns everybody on," says one Princeton senior...