Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...errands at a shoe factory for $3 a week. Says he: "They were not very particular about child-labor laws then." While in high school, he learned some harsher facts of labor life. Working for $6 a week as a suit packer in a clothing store ("I can still pack a suit pretty well"), Goldberg and some fellow employees protested at being forced to work extra hours at no extra pay. The result was decisive: "We were fired...
...States. This pleased many people, not because they disliked the woman, but because they wanted the right to have their own way of life recognized." In a similar vein, the corpsmen learned the proper way for a woman to offer cigarettes to a Buddhist priest: put the pack on a rock, since the priests cannot receive anything directly from female hands. ¶ It is not always necessary to observe local customs, but it is always advisable to find a graceful way of refusing. "The people in this area were polygamous. They wanted us to marry a few more wives...
...Piel Bros., to be marketed in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware-despite the obvious distaste of other brewers who would just as soon not remind people of beer's fattening contents. Priced slightly higher than regular beers ($1.17 in New York City for a six-pack of 12-oz. bottles or cans), Red Letter contains fewer than 100 calories per 12 oz. (v. 150-170 in other beers). The reduction in calories results not so much from a slight drop in alcohol content, say the makers, as from the removal of rice and corn "adjuncts...
...crazy about him," says Shirley, "but he doesn't seem to want to communicate with me." Says Warren: "Our lives have been absolutely separate, but there's not a big hostile thing." Independently, he lives his own young-Hollywood life with his own little mouse pack. His long romance with English Actress Joan Collins entered the requiem phase last week with her announcement that their engagement is broken. Meanwhile, squaring out a complicated parallelogram, Actress Collins is dating Actor Robert Wagner, and Wagner's estranged wife, Actress Natalie Wood, is currently decorating the swimming pool at Warren...
...bizarre incidents of war-the middle-aged Japanese officer who drove unharmed through the startled brigade in a chugging Chevy, staring straight ahead and looking as though he had just committed "a grave social faux pas." Masters tells of monocled British officers who went off to war with a pack of foxhounds and 40 dozen cases of champagne, and who could turn a man to jelly just by peering with wonder at his clothes. And Masters writes frankly of his affair with a married woman, who proudly bore him an illegitimate daughter before they could be married...