Word: minting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Street (which hippies hope to have renamed "Love Street"); the region itself-once the residence of such formidable families as the silver-mining Floods and the couture-vending Magnins-is studded with steamboat-Gothic mansions and psychedelic gathering places like the "I and Thou" coffee shop and the "Print Mint." Its inhabitants wear everything from Elizabethan motley to Judean beards. They preach every gospel from the 19th century socialism of France's Charles Fourier to the all-purpose caritas of St. Francis. Most of them-perhaps 80%-are steadily high on drugs ranging from LSD to such synthetic stimulants...
Died. Raoul Levy, 44, penny-ante French film producer, who made a mint out of Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman, after which the law of averages straightened out; by his own hand (16-gauge shotgun); in Saint-Tropez, France (see SHOW BUSINESS...
This meticulously screened group tackles writing assignments varying from the conventional (formally analyze Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale") to the bizarre (describe the taste of a Canada Mint). One teaching fellow runs his class like a "watered-down graduate seminar" assigning pairs of students to prepare a book for class dissection each week. Another has given a series of lectures on six schools of literary criticism...
...Mint Green. "Brownie," as he had been called since childhood, had plenty of vim and vigor and decided to give the place a shaking-up. He also clasped to his bosom an ex-pressagent named Hy Gardner. Gardner got a gossip column and a big voice in the upper echelons. Soon Brownie brought in a dismally square Tangle Towns puzzle contest, a mint-green third section, a weekly pocket TV magazine (editor: Gardner), and an early-bird edition that came out at 8 p.m. The puzzles boosted circulation, but the green section did nothing, the TV guide lost money...
...handful of enthusiasts saw a chance to take over 1½ miles of the Branford line. Today Branford ranks as the second largest trolley trove in the country, is stocked with 75 cars, ranging from a John Stephenson horsecar, vintage 1893, to a wicker-chaired private parlor car in mint condition...