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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infidelity is actually increasing in the U.S., adultery has become almost a lighthearted and guilt-free pastime. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Bal Harbour, Fla., last week, Dr. Leon Salzman of Georgetown University Medical School noted that, contrary to popular thinking, a large number of adulterers are neither anxious nor conscience-stricken. With ridiculous ease, these philanderers convince themselves that an affair is either necessary to maintain their own mental health or a device for allowing them to tolerate a barely compatible husband or wife while still remaining married...
Horizontal Cleavage. Ah, yes, but does the rest of the world? If not, a woman can get the news out in any number of ways. There is body jewelry -breastplates made of metal or leather, or vests put together from chains of plastic or pearls. Or the see-through blouse, with a bra of the same fabric but lined (and therefore opaque) to keep the blouse a blurb instead of the advertisement it becomes when worn over nothing. Then there are see-through pants (under them, a matching opaque bikini bottom) and cleavage: vertical in skirts slit...
...matter of days. The judge who issues the writ may also hear the charges, and the accused often has no right to a jury. If convicted, students may be sent to jail and fined. If they repeatedly defy the court order, they may be cited for contempt any number of times...
...growing stable of muscle cars has given insurance executives a bad case of nerves. Neal E. Mann, executive secretary of the Independent Automobile Damage Appraisers Association, has proposed that cars be rated according to the six factors that contribute to acceleration-engine size, number of carburetor barrels, compression ratio, weight, pounds per horsepower and axle ratio. One Pennsylvania-based company, the Erie Insurance Exchange, already uses the horsepower-weight ratio to take the temperature of a prospective car and refuses to write new policies on any that register "hot." As Mann told a group of insurers in a speech...
Bamboo Beginnings. In response to this appetite, a growing number of farmers are flooding their acreage and raising fish instead of conventional crops. Last year the nation's 4,000 catfish farmers sold some 12 million lbs. of their product, and the 1972 harvest is projected at 52 million lbs. by the Interior Department's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries...