Word: lido
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attention-drawing cars in autodom's history, drives into showrooms all over the U.S. In it rides both a big bundle of Ford's future and the reputation of the man who daily test-drives a different Mustang between Bloomfield Hills and Dearborn. The man is Lido Anthony Iacocca, general manager of Ford's Ford Division, which accounts for roughly 80% of the company's sales...
...confronted with this one: "Her pad is to write in and not to spend the night in." Parisians could be expected to understand the sentiment but not the beat idiom. Castans settled for a weak substitute: in translation, "Her place is at the office and not at the Lido...
...colonels' uniforms just in case he decided to defect, even discussed a possible escape from Russia by submarine if things got hot. He recalled more relaxed moments pub-crawling and nightclubbing. Box of Chocolates. After London, there was Paris. Wynne gaily showed the Russian around Fontainebleau, Versailles, the Lido and the Moulin Rouge-and willingly picked up the tab. Penkovsky handed over 15 more rolls of film and had five sessions with Western intelligence agents. On occasions when Wynne came to Moscow on a business trip, Penkovsky usually passed his information to him concealed in a box of chocolates...
...water temperature was a frigid 54° one day recently when Mary Margaret Revell, a pretty blonde of 25, stepped into the surf at Sicily's Lido di Mortelle, pulled a pair of goggles over her eyes, and set out for the distant Italian coast. Two and a half hours later, she waded ashore, paused just long enough to gulp down honey, glucose tablets and tea, then started back toward Sicily. The going was tougher now; her right arm developed a cramp; she swallowed sea water and vomited. Only her legs kept her going. At last, after...
...losing her virtue. The girls from 16 (minimum age) to 18 must have a chaperone always with them, and the older girls (up to 29) are fired if caught consorting with the customers. No Bluebell ever appears in the nude (although eight decorative non-Bluebell nudes stand around the Lido stage while the Bluebells perform). Presumably acting on the theory that a good big girl is better than a good little girl, Miss Kelly long ago decided that no Bluebell could be less than 5 ft. 8 in. Some hit 6 ft. 4 in., and when got up in four...