Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debt by $27 billion in just three years. The debt would then total nearly $316 billion-a figure which should give pause even to the most enthusiastic proponents of "more." In addition, the very size of Kennedy's gargantuan budget has probably thrown a damper on any psychological lift that the economy might be expected to get from tax cuts and tax reform...
...between as the strands of their own hair. To the wearer it was all a matter of secrecy and shame, and to onlookers a cause for thunderous hilarity; the next best thing to seeing a man slip on a banana peel was watching the wind lift the wig off his glittering skull. Neither disgraceful nor comic any more, toupees are big business in the U.S. today. They are worn not only by matinee idols whose afternoons are fast fading into dusk, but also by many a man who lost his comb and never noticed, or whose wife was mistaken-once...
...spreads we have directed attention to the best works of such gifted contemporaries as Mies van der Rohe, Breuer, Gropius, Saarinen, Rudolph, Belluschi and Nervi. Architects themselves seem highly mindful of TIME'S role in bringing architecture to a wider public. Gordon Bunshaft, the man who gave a lift to Manhattan's Park Avenue with his famous postwar Lever House, says. "There are times when we don't know whether we're working for a client or for TIME...
...dormitories for about $4 a night, sleeping four or more in a room. Skiing is an expensive addiction ($45 million was spent on equipment alone in the U.S. last year), and one of the chief subjects of discussion was the $6.50 charge for a ticket on the ski lift...
...cost of schuss and slalom, many young people become what are known-not derogatorily-as ski bums. Ski bums work to pay their way; they make up a major part of the labor force at the winter resorts. They fare better in the East, where they get room, board, lift tickets and a little extra money, than in the West, where they get only money, and not much of that. A few are adept enough to work as instructors, but most of Aspen's ski bums work in the bars, restaurants and shops...