Word: fold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Women's Wear Daily's biweekly supplement, offers "Juicy People." W solemnly reports two ways that JPs can be recognized: "Watch a JP cut into a steak. He always makes the first cut right in the center. Get to the pleasure fast." And: "Ask your lover to fold his hands. If the left thumb overlaps the right one, he's a JP...He thinks with his heart. If the right thumb overlaps the left, he thinks with his mind. No juice." That may be great for recognizing male JPs, but inexplicably W has so far failed...
...Boston Red Sox announced Friday the signing of third baseman Rico Petrocelli and outfielder Tommy Harper bringing to 30 the number in the fold for the 1973 American League baseball season. Both received pay increases...
...route from Europe lay round India, to the south), are a rare example of such a vogue in reverse. The very fact that, by the early 17th century, some feudal lord had commissioned a World Map and Four Major Cities of the World (see color), painted on twin eight-fold screens, is significant; his ancestors would not even have been curious, confidently locked as they were in the isolation of Japan. A world map represented as great a jump in thought for Japan as the first photo of the earth from space did to us. The Japanese artist who painted...
...position of strength and influence; in another time and place, perhaps that would have been true. But it was a narrow-based movement then, eliciting only limited support beyond the left-liberal American intelligentsia. What is so frightening is that now, with the base of support broadened ten-fold, we have re-elected a President who declares publicly, "Decision-makers can't be affected by current opinion, by TV barking at you and commentators banging away with the idea that World War III is coming because of the mining of Haiphong. Nor can decisions be affected by the demonstrators outside...
...record revenues of $9.5 billion for 1972. Still, says Control Data's Norris: "We found that IBM marketing pressures that we had challenged lessened considerably" after the suit was filed. Until the Justice Department's antitrust challenge is resolved, IBM may well avoid any attempt to fold, spindle or mutilate the competition...