Word: household
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Central Temple) amid burning sutras and tantric scriptures. The last 400 of Tibet's former 150,000 monks and lamas, who were kept on as window dressing, have now been stripped of their russet robes. All forms of religious life have been harshly suppressed. Red Guards relentlessly destroy household altars. Their favorite punishment for Tibetans caught practicing religious rites is to lock them in a room, tell them that "your God will supply you food," and abandon them...
...duel with McC all's (circ. 8,500,000) for leadership of the women's field, the Journal (circ. 6,800,000) has been losing believers. Last week, as part of its radical retrenchment policies, the venerable Curtis Publishing Co. sold off the Journal, along with the household-decorating monthly American Home. The buyer: Downe Communications Inc., a consortium of mailorder firms, cosmetic and pet-food companies, and the newspaper supplement Family Weekly. Price: 100,000 shares of Downe stock, worth about $5,400,0000. Downe hopes to boost the Journal's circulation and ad revenue without...
WESTON, VT., Playhouse. Two men suffering hangovers from marriages on the rocks try setting up an all-male household in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple...
Richard Nixon's choice as running mate would not have batted an eye. "Spiro Agnew," admitted Spiro T. Agnew last week, "is not a household word." Anonymity may indeed have been one of the strongest factors in his selection as the Republican vice-presidential candidate. For if the Maryland Governor has done little to excite attention beyond the borders of his own state, he has done even less to arouse real antagonism in the G.O.P. Outside Maryland he has been known chiefly as the first Governor of Greek descent...
...hurled a few bottles at the feckless foe. Otherwise, life has been quiet for BB and beau. Gunther, meanwhile, tore himself away from the North Sea's nudist beaches long enough to file for divorce, accusing Brigitte of "an abusive conception of marriage and premeditated abandonment of the household." To which Brigitte responded with a peal of laughter...