Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SCUBA DUBA. Bruce Jay Friedman's tense comedy makes a mockery of the sacred cows and shibboleths of an illiberal liberal. Jerry Orbach is the manic hero run amuck on a Riviera holiday...
Lost Meaning. Employers were also sympathetic. A Wednesday holiday was tolerable-at least to the boss, who could count on two solid days of work before and after it. But Tuesdays and Thursdays were painful. Employees looked at him reproachfully if he did not throw in the extra Monday or Friday to make a full four-day holiday...
...Bessie Smith?the first (1894-1937) of the great blues belters. Ray Charles called her "one of the greatest I've heard any time." Janis Joplin, 25, probably the most powerful singer to emerge from the white rock movement, ranked her as "the best chick singer since Billie Holiday." Her troubles were over...
...years," said Los Angeles Financier Howard Ahnflanson not long ago. "My secret weapon is money." Within that context, Ahmanson was a total success. At the time of his death after a heart attack last week in the small Belgian town of Marche-en-Famenne during a European holiday, Ahmansjon, 61, was the sole ruler of a savings-and-loan, banking and insurance combine that had earned him a personal fortune worth at least $300 million...
...nation's overburdened stock markets called time out last week, but investors didn't seem to hear the whistle. Stock exchanges and the over-the-counter market took a one-day holiday to let brokerage houses attack a mountain of paperwork that has swamped clerical staffs. The shutdown was the first of three consecutive Wednesday closings to be followed by a similar non-trading day on Friday, July...