Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manhattan now boasts 21 discotheques, where such luminaries as Rudolf Nureyev, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Truman Capote, Baby Jane Holzer, Sammy Davis Jr., ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, Carol Channing, Peter Lawford, Tennessee Williams and Oleg Cassini mix it up with the hip twitchers. Both New York Senators?Jacob Javits and his wife Marion ("My husband and I just love to frug"), and Bobby Kennedy and Ethel ("I can't believe all that action on such a small floor")?make the discotheque scene. Jackie Kennedy, on her occasional visits to Il Mio, does a sedate version of the frug. Adlai...
Hoffmann's introduction is modest. Aron is not only a columnist; he is the best of the West's myriad political commentators. Reading him, one cannot help feeling he has achieved the optimum mix of compassion and realism. The Great Debate is an example of neutral analysis in the service of compassion. Aron analyzes the nuclear apocalypse before which much of Harvard shudders as millenial Christians before the imminent Judgment, and he deals with it in a calm, utterly convincing...
...April and the Labor government's announcement last week of tougher credit restrictions. After a two-day meeting of Working Party III, the Dun & Bradstreet of such matters, the loan was unanimously approved. Another group of moneymen called the Paris Club then sat down to decide what mix of gold and currencies will make up the loan. The loan will be made through the International Monetary Fund, the daddy and inspiration of all the clubs. It thus raises Britain's debt to the IMF's maximum limit of $2.4 billion, makes the sterling rescue the biggest bailing...
...almost forgotten. His funeral was an American travesty, attended by all the preposterous contradictions of his unlikely life. Services were held in a Congregational church; a Communist delivered the eulogy; and Dreiser was interred with capitalistic splendor at Forest Lawn, in the plot next to Tom Mix...
...early 1930s, when it brought out Alka-Seltzer. Though archrival Bromo-Seltzer had already been marketing an effervescent powder for years, Alka-Seltzer soon moved ahead to become a dyspeptic nation's favorite (it now outsells Bromo-Seltzer 4 to 1). After packaging powdered coffee and lemon mix for K-rations during World War II, Miles Laboratories became in the postwar years the world's largest seller of multivitamin tablets. Nonetheless, though prospering, the company itself showed a decided lack of pep by the mid-1950s...