Word: letup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aged trucking executive who, after five years as Ingrid's lover, prefers to spend his time with younger models. Ingrid has a lugubrious affair with Perkins, a spoiled young loafer, after he lures her to a concert with the mysteriously seductive incantation, "Aimez-vous Brahms?" There is a letup in the mooning when Perkins' exasperated boss asks him what the trouble is. "I just realized I've never been in love before," says the bemused one. "Well I have," says his employer, urging strongly that he get back to work...
...there was no sign of a letup in activity-and each share traded meant commissions for somebody...
There was no letup in the outboard horsepower race. Outboard Marine's best-selling twins, Johnson and Evinrude, each unveiled a $908.50, 75-h.p. giant (up from 1958's 50 h.p. tops); Mercury showed off a 80 h.p. behemoth (price: $1,100 without propeller). While out-boarders felt that they were almost to the limit in horsepower for the hulls now in existence, Scott showed an experimental...
AMERICAN Some Like It Hot. Director Billy Wilder's splendid parody of a Mack Sennett comedy, sustained without letup or letdown for two hours (TIME, March...