Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Litton's latest merger is far smaller than James Ling's $425 million J. & L. deal, and does not even involve an American concern. The FTC's target is a pair of West German typewriter makers in which Litton (1968 sales: $1.9 billion) bought a majority interest last January. Their worldwide sales total some $52 million, but only $7.5 million comes from the U.S., where their Triumph-Adler brand of typewriters accounts for a minuscule share of the market. But the FTC complains that the acquisition tends to "lessen competition" in violation of the Clayton Antitrust...
...athlete. He could hardly have foreseen the day when, at high noon, two out of every five women passing the entrance of Henri Bendel's in Manhattan would be dressed in trousers. The fact that women's pants are a fact of life (45 million pairs will be sold in the U.S. this year) is a source of solid comfort to fabric manufacturers. It takes three yards of material to make a pair of pants, v. one yard for a miniskirt. But it is also a source of problems for the women who wear them...
...Both fell into the void between irony and farce. Harry Reason-er's 60 Minutes visit with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor was stretched for 20 minutes- and then its mood was shattered by one of the show's sophomoric "Digressions," involving inane wisecracks from a pair of silhouettes. Like many TV news shows, the magazines resort to seemingly significant film clips-slum dwellers lounging on doorsteps, bearded students on motorcyles-that are becoming visual clich...
...University of Georgia, and lost, 8-1 and 9-0. John Levin earned the only point by downing Georgia's top man, Danny Birchmore, 9-7, 7-5. Levin and Rocky Jarvis lost in three gruelling sets, 11-13, 7-5, 6-4, to Georgia's best pair, Shippey and Norman Holmes, in what the Georgia coach called "the best match ever played on these courts...
What has eight legs and laughs? ran the question in the '30s. Answer: the Marx Brothers. Later they lost a pair of legs, when Zeppo dropped out of the act. Groucho, Chico and Harpo went on to make eight more films together, becoming precursors of the new American humor. Groucho's flip irrelevancies foreshadowed the theater of the absurd: "I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse." Harpo was a troll bridge between the silents and the talkies. "How can you write for Harpo?" shrugged George S. Kaufman. "All you can say is, 'Harpo enters...