Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drab city where coats are still shapeless and shoddy, the well-dressed visitors brought gifts of fresh fruit, flowers, candies and toys. They would have brought much more, but the East German Grenzpolizei refused to allow any merchandise across the border that might display the abundance and quality of Western goods. Meat or sausages, phonograph records and stereo tapes, fur and leather goods, clothes or any products in cans, bottles or sealed packages were all strictly verboten...
...estimated 70% of the troops in Viet Nam are still eating canned C-rations ("C-rats" to the G.I.s), despite over 200,000 choice steaks and mountains of fresh eggs and vegetables waiting in Saigon's cold-storage facilities. Reason: field units have inadequate refrigerated space of their own-a must in Viet Nam's hot and humid climate. Even Saigon's "reefer" (refrigerator) capacity is grossly short: a single cargo ship can carry far more than that...
...Thunderball he manages a change of pace by joining Largo's seaworthy French playmate (Claudine Auger) for an amorous exploit down among the corals. "I hope we didn't frighten the fish," he quips afterward, wading ashore. Alas, even subaqueous sex cannot keep the formula entirely fresh. Yet, if Thunderball's gimmickry seems to overreach at times, Actor Connery gains assurance from film to film, by now delivers all his soppiest Jimcracks martini-dry. He is hilariously astringent when he drops a limp dancing partner at a nightclubber's ringside table, saying: "D'you mind...
...record prosperity may prove more troublesome for Washington than achieving it. The U.S. economy is thriving in a careful balance, with industry humming at close to capacity, shortages of skilled labor hampering (though not yet hobbling) key producers, price increases straining the bounds of stability. Last week, as fresh evidence showed that industry's plans to expand capacity have hardly been dented by the rising price of money, the signs also increased that the Administration may soon feel forced to use stronger medicine to fight the threat of inflation...
...marginal, at most. During Cabinet Room meetings on the Bay of Pigs, he never voiced his doubts, fearful that he might be branded "a nuisance." "It is one thing for a Special Assistant to talk frankly in private to a President," explains Schlesinger, "and another for a college professor, fresh to the Government, to interpose his unassisted judgment in open meeting against that of such august figures as the Secretaries of State and Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff." At this point, the historian shades imperceptibly into the apologist, as Schlesinger writes: "The advocates of the adventure...