Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reading your story, I find I must add one more item to the already big job of being a mother-that of censorship...
...accomplished but by no means a revolutionary stylist. His attack is clean, straightforward, unsophisticated-basic stuff by the standards of modern jazz. Where he does excel is in imparting a freewheeling, come-join-the-party feeling that, he candidly admits, is the only way to make jazz "a salable item that people will understand, enjoy...
...American presence is felt in ways other than the military. In Korat's swinging nightspots (ranging from the Pizza Palace to the Playboy Bar), crew-cut G.I.s dance with Thai girls in skintight trousers and bouffant hairdos that glint with Helene Curtis spray (a top PX item despite the fact that no American military dependents are allowed in Thailand). Ubiquitous transistors thrum with American pop tunes (current favorite: Love Potion No. 9), and such examples of American cuisine as cheeseburgers and chicken-in-the-basket now grace the menus in Udorn. The U.S. Army's Ninth Logistical Command...
...antic English of the papers' translators leads to frequent apologies in print. Recently the Daily News ran a correction: "In yesterday's issue, due to a printing error in the item on the Philippines, 'U.S. to Pay $6 Million Cost' was printed 'U.S. to Pay $6 Million Loot'; and on the same page in the item on Billy Graham, 'Asks Audience to Give L.B.J. Standing Ovation' was printed 'Asks Audience to Give L.B.J. Standing Nation.' We sincerely regret these misspellings and ask our readers to accept our sincere apologies...
Outlawed Stamp. Not quite so funny were the new economic sanctions that Wilson slapped on Rhodesia. In addition to the embargo on Rhodesian tobacco and sugar (the nation's major crops), Britain also banned imports of asbestos (a $30 million export item last year), copper, lithium, chrome, iron, steel and meat. That made the embargo 95% complete. Simultaneously, Wilson ordered a halt to interest payments, dividends and pensions from Britain to Rhodesian residents, thus damming a flow of income that totaled some $25 million last year. He even outlawed Rhodesia's bright new independence postal stamp as British...