Word: napkins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown Palace Hotel in Denver last week, a bearded ecclesiastic startled the desk clerk by trying to get change for a napkin-sized, 1914-era $100 bill, given to him, he explained, by his grandmother. The well-heeled visitor was one of 16 Russian church leaders who showed up at the National Council of Churches' General Board meeting, to be greeted coldly by some protesting right-wing fundamentalists and warmly by two of the nation's most prestigious Protestants: J. Irwin Miller, layman president of the council and Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian...
Reluctant Donation. Had it not been for a sore throat, Green Bay might still be just the paper napkin capital of the U.S. In 1918, Earl Louis Lambeau, a tousleheaded Notre Dame fullback and a disciple of Knute Rockne, came home to Green Bay to have his tonsils removed, stayed on as a $250-a-month shipping clerk at the Indian Packing Co. "Curly" Lambeau liked his job, but he still pined to play football. Within the year, he scraped up $500 to start a professional team. By naming his motley squad the Packers, Curly persuaded his reluctant employers...
...century look-as of a mantis who has lost faith in the efficacy of prayer. He suggests the all-round fellow of the 1960s who is the antithesis of Renaissance man-painfully aware of nearly everything, truly able at nothing. His spine seems to be a stack of plastic napkin rings. But he has no false bravado, and he is relentlessly attractive. In nearly every woman there stirs the same silent response: "Marcello obviously needs professional help, but first he needs...
...added Nikolayev, that he could see the main streets of cities on earth; at times, he added, moonlight flooded into his cabin, illuminating the switches before him. Popovich said that each time he finished eating, he switched on a vacuum cleaner to clear away the lint from his paper napkin that hung weightless in the cabin. In a personal experiment with weightlessness, Popovich said that he had carried a bottle half full of water aloft with him. The water gathered about both ends of the bottle "and the air collected in the middle in a little sphere. It stayed that...
...light affected objects, particulary the garnish glare of bulbs and florescent tubes that made objects seem to swell with importance. When be drove across the country, he noticed soemthing else; the repetition of "the still life of the restaurant table" - the same salt and pepper shakers and napkin holders in dining rooms and roadside stands everywhere. Finally, after a trip to Mexico he found that what struck him most vividly on re-entering the U.S. was the gaudy luxury of the drugstore and hamburger stands. And so he began painting food, "Meringue is a beautiful substance," he says, "but there...