Word: girling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Picture Payments. The rest of the morning passed peacefully enough-until shortly before noon, when John ducked out to shop for a present for his girl friend's birthday. He had spotted just the thing a few days earlier in a nearby department store: a $1.49 Protectalarm-a battery-operated siren designed to be carried in a woman's purse...
...Exhausted, nerves frazzled, he walked home-carefully skirting shadows. He took a trifle longer than usual to open his triple-locked door. The delay proved unfortunate. Before John could slither inside his urban fortress, three thugs lurking in the vestibule relieved him of his wallet, his watch and his girl friend's Protectalarm. Then, for good measure, they gave him a whiff of his own Mace...
...longer papa but the computer who knows best how to help boy meet girl. Not so, as yet at any rate, in Japan, where the professional matchmaker still plies his ancient and honorable trade with a gusto no computer could possibly match. Perhaps the most successful in Japan today is wispy, 73-year-old Genkichi Ishizaka, who is perfectly certain that he knows the secret of making a marriage stick...
...most important thing," he told inquiring TIME Correspondent S. Chang last week, "is to get the right boy for the right girl so that their sex engines will go bang and keep on going bang." So far in his 41-year career in the marriage business, he has totted up a total of 2,882 self-sustaining chain reactions...
Breakneck Pace. Almost daily, letters pour into his home at Matsumoto from men looking for "a girl as pure as the limpid waters in the brooks of the Japan alps" or a young lady "with the most charming eyes," and from girls seeking the "right boy." Ishizaka, who insists upon interviewing all candidates at their homes, works at a breakneck pace: he engineered a mate for the alpinist in only a week and found the necessary charming-eyed lovely in 24 hours. He never asks a fee, leaving that to the generosity of the persons concerned. The largest...