Word: jars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brave thrust at sociological jar gon, Professor Alan Simpson, who next year will become president of Vassar College, once transfixed students at Washington University in St. Louis by putting the 23rd Psalm into educanto...
...double purpose of sucking in hard money and keeping down local pressure for consumer goods. The 40 foreign branches of Poland's Pekao organization let outsiders order for Poland delivery to their relatives and friends. The insiders get scarce luxuries that range from Elizabeth Arden creams ($1 a jar) and Gillette Blue Blades ($5 for 100) to baby pigs ($16 for two) and Simca autos ($1,950). Pekao's take from this sanctioned black market traffic is estimated to be $40 million a year...
Junpei is a hobo full of heart and uncommon ingenuity. He wears a remarkable garment fitted out with pockets for everything: tools, utensils, pots, food packets, soy sauce and a jar of Ajinomoto brand monosodium glutamate. And taped over his liver, like a mustard plaster, is a wad of 80,000 yen. Junpei prefers to live by his wits instead of his money, and hits the road to put the touch on all who cross his zigzag path. On his travels he encounters Komako, a female swindler with a grisly gimmick: she begs by posing as a Hiroshima maiden, although...
...philosophical reading of the play. But while concerned with Shaw's thought, Everingham has not forgotten Shaw's wit; he has clearly attempted to exploit all the obvious opportunities for laughter. As a result, the Harvard production is part farce, part serious philosophy. The two approaches sometimes jar. There is little subtle comedy to bridge the two moods, and the actors and their audience have trouble making the transition...
...from the Wairarapa district of New Zealand, Bob Charles, 27, belongs to an exclusive minority-he is a lefthanded golfer on the U.S. pro tour. That alone is enough to make him the hero of 400,000 amateur lefties who wire him encouragement and even dip into the cooky jar to bet on their boy against the likes of Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. Those bets have begun to pay off. Last April Charles became the first left-hander ever to win a major pro tournament when he took the $10,000 top money in the Houston Classic. Last week...