Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russell says that the Senator sometimes signs his name "Barry Goldwater, L.B.J." That is, "Little Bit Jewish." Russell, who has been working at Bobby Baker's Carousel motel in Ocean City, Md., and opens at the Shoreham in Washington, B.C., next week, will be taking with him another item that concerns Hubert Humphrey, Phar. D. "The fact that Humphrey has a degree in pharmacy would be very handy," says Russell. "Some hot day, Johnson could say: 'Hubert, make me a malted...
...main item on the agenda is the pious wish to "establish relations among the Arab countries on the sound basis of love and genuine cooperation." But in the Arab world, love is a many-splintered thing, what with 40,000 Egyptian troops fighting a bloody guerrilla war with royalist tribesmen in Yemen, Morocco and Algeria still squabbling over their disputed border, and jails in almost every state jammed with Arab dissenters...
...Jerome Kern. He has two recondite versions of Kern's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, which was an early failure, having begun its existence, startlingly enough, as a military march called I'm Marching Off to War. Bagley also has some high-powered Coward, most notably an item called Carrie Was a Careful Girl, which is, of all things, a ballad about contraceptives...
...former barony of Railroad Tycoon E. H. Harriman. In 1950 Eldest Son W. Averell Harriman gave the $5.5 million neo-Norman castle and its 100 acres of parkland to Columbia. Alumnus Averell and his brother Roland picked up the tab for converting the old homestead into a conference center (item: a new roof at $165,000) for the university. For après la classe, it has a swimming pool, golf course and tennis courts-plus a lake for fishing and a bar for socializing, both well-stocked. Businessese is fluently spoken by all hands...
...fatter on-of all things-diet drinks. With Americans consuming an average of 227 bottles each per year, the soft-drink bottlers have upped their sales 64% in the last five years, to a record $2.3 billion. Sales are expected to rise another 10% this year, and the hottest item in the boost will be the diet drinks, which are expected to go up at least 50% above their 1963 sales of $200 million. More than two dozen diet drinks are fighting for a share of the growing market...