Word: fruits
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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...
Cassius Clay? Not this time. California's Governor Pat Brown, 60, was sicking his doggerel on New York's Nelson Rockefeller, 57, betting him "one box of assorted fresh California fruit" that the San Diego Chargers would whip the Bills for the American Football League championship. Nelson, stout feller, staked a crate of New York State apples on it, and after some musing wrote Brown...
PASTEL BLUES (Philips). Whoever called these blues pastel is colorblind. This is raw, strong and often ugly singing by Nina Simone, who makes one chilling visit to the South (Strange Fruit-"black bodies swinging from the trees") but mostly moans and shouts with gospel fervor about love and loneliness (End of the Line, Ain't No Use). Be My Husband is sung to the accompaniment of a loudly cracking whip...
...First Hand. Schlesinger's thousand days amid the dust and sweat of public affairs have now borne fruit in A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. After Kennedy's assassination, the participant reverted to the role of historian, and in 14 months of feverish writing sought to capture on paper the events he had seen at first hand. The result is, by all odds, the best of the 90-or-so Kennedy books that have appeared in the two years since Dallas. It has won Schlesinger critical acclaim and considerable affluence as well. With...
...their money, the self-made millionaires have many traits in common. Almost all of them decided early in life to be their own bosses. Most of them started earning money while still children: by the time he was 13, Arthur Carlsberg had been a caddy, gardener, seed salesman and fruit trader. Many of them, like Merlyn Mickelson, never went to college; others, like Arthur Decio and Charles Bluhdorn, impatiently dropped out of college in order to study in the marketplace. At the beginning of their careers, they lived lean, often taking shoestring salaries in order to pump profits back into...