Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Splendor. At home, she dresses informally in the kho, the traditional Sikkimese costume, which is an ankle-length jumper that wraps around the waist and is worn over a blouse of contrasting color-cotton or wool for the daytime and silk in the evening. She uses cosmetics only occasionally and does her own hair-though she admits that she is encouraging a romance between a Sikkimese youth and a Calcutta hairdresser in the hope of importing the kingdom's first coiffeuse. She describes her home as "a poorish palace but a palace." It is a 64-year...
There are so many weight watchers and calorie counters in the U.S. that each year they consume almost 1,500 tons of saccharin and 7,500 tons of cyclamates. The cyclamates come in liquid form or in tablets for use at home, and are dissolved in most low-calorie soft drinks by their makers. Are they safe? For years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration thought so and recommended no limit on consumers' intake...
...record, or start a new hotel, or come up with a new orange drink." Her parents separated when she was twelve, and four years later Gloria went to live with a sister in Washington. Before that, she says, "I'd never lived any place to invite anybody home to. I thought that people always ate out of refrigerators...
After graduating from Smith College in 1956 (scholarship student, government major), she went off to India for two years on a fellowship, then came home to work in Cambridge, Mass., for a group encouraging American students to attend Communist youth festivals abroad. It was revealed as a CIA-supported operation in 1967, but Gloria says, "I was happy to use the Establishment's money against the Establishment...
...such a drag to have to love a plastic Mom and Dad"). San Francisco's Country Joe and The Fish have focused on the war in Viet Nam as a symptom of national sickness ("Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home...