Word: hi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Virginia patted her Clairoled pouf, pinned on a diamond as big as a blintz, and walked out to plant her guests around the living-room-style set. As soon as the four of them had adjusted their on-screen smiles, the TV tape machines began to roll. "Hi everyone," chirped Virginia, "and welcome to Girl Talk...
Unfortunately, all this expert attention was about as helpful as pouring a magnum of champagne into a thimble, because most of the hi-fi sound that Cole created for next week's Andy Williams special will be wasted when it is fed through the nation's strictly lo-fi TV sets. The unhappy fact is that, to keep prices competitive, most TV units are equipped with 4-in., $1.50 speakers, which have all the fidelity of a string stretched between two tin cans. Nonetheless, as Cole forever demonstrates in the specials he engineers for such headliners as Williams...
...weight. > A decline in selfesteem, which shows up in daydreaming, procrastination in schoolwork, inability to concentrate on reading material, apathy and fatigue. > A loss of interest in academic work. The student may prefer "to thumb idly through magazines and science fiction, haunt movies, sit about all day listening to hi-fi or just languishing." >Suicide threats and notes, which "should always be taken seriously...
...Jones HI, the middle-class Detroit Negro who was the first defector to arrive. A Swedish resident since January 1967, Jones had been given an apartment in suburban Stockholm, found work for himself as a dancing teacher and for his German-born wife as a secretary, and fathered a son. Yet last week Jones let it be known that he had had his fill of Sweden. Complaining that "the Swedes have a natural prejudice against black people," he presented himself to the American embassy in Stockholm and asked for transportation back to his unit in West Germany, where he faced...
...report, compiled by State Department Inspector General J. K. Mansfield, told of an argosy of luxuries and trivia bestowed under AID financing: a $2,111 car for the Japanese embassy in Santo Domingo, a stereophonic hi-fi system for the El Salvador embassy, wine glasses and $10,000 worth of pastel-colored bidets for the Dominican Republic...