Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second only to taxes, credit is seen as an area of everyday fraud. Initially, America's burgeoning credit-card business suffered considerable damage from high livers who could buy now but not pay later. The magic inherent in those little plastic rectangles hypnotized many into becoming adventurers-such as the man whose idea of the good life was to bed down in a variety of hospitals on stolen Blue Cross cards. But such abuses are now insignificant-thanks to more responsible screening of applicants and automated accounting techniques-even though credit keeps expanding. In department-store charge accounts...
Burning Sincerity. Whatever the theme or style, the essence of the blues is a quality of burning sincerity called "soul." "Soul is something that you feel within yourself and you gotta give to the people," explains Singer-Guitarist Magic Sam. "It's hardship, what you've been through. I love it even though it makes me sad, because that's what I am." Adds retired Harmonica Player Shaky Jake: "Blues are the true story, the truest music I ever heard in my life...
...roadside picnic spots, "houses that look like the ones in the movies," and the variety of the population-"white, yellow and every shade of black," an Italian visitor noted. Tops among minuses are rude customs officers. Others: slums, dismal trains, violence, plastic flowers, women in hair curlers, "magic ringers" vibrating beds, difficulty in finding information booths and public toilets...
Lots of Sweat. There are a few spoilsports around the National League who insist that Perry's sudden prowess is due to another magic ingredient. "You want to bet $100 he doesn't throw a spitball?" challenges Cardinal Rightfielder Mike Shannon. The Giants, of course, deny it (though Perry slyly admits, "I do sweat a lot out there"). "He's a suspect to start with," says Farm Club Director Carl Hubbell. "Because he's having a helluva year, they all complain that he's got to be doing something funny...
...name's the same, but somehow it has lost that old magic-at least to the cops out in Santa Monica, Calif. In the days when Peter Lawford was married to Pat Kennedy, the local police were only too happy to let a helicopter plop down on the public beach by his ocean-front home and whisk him off. Pat has divorced him now, and everything's changed. "Peter who?" asked the captain on duty when Los Angeles Air Taxi Service made its 28th routine request for landing permission. Request denied. Lawford ordered the copter to pick...