Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is how much of the world beyond its borders feels about the U.S. today. All too widely, the country is regarded as a blood-drenched, continent-wide shooting range where toddlers blast off with real rifles, housewives pack pearl-handled revolvers, and political assassins stalk their victims at will...
...gleaming black hair is no longer neatly combed back. The mustache has been trimmed. Gone is the dashing Captain Midnight look: tailored black flying suit, violet scarf, pearl-handled .38 revolver. At 37, the Vice President of South Vietnam, Nguyen Cao Ky, has taken to wearing bulky Mao-style suits -and the baggy new look is in keeping with both his sagging political fortunes and his efforts to fashion a new political image...
...issue fad has also spread heavily to franchising chains and medical-service firms including convalescent homes. The stock of year-old Minnie Pearl's Chicken System Inc., a Nashville-based franchiser of fried-chicken outlets, has jumped from $20 to $44.50 since it was issued May 1. American Medicorp Inc., formed in January to buy and run hospitals (it now owns three), last month brought out a 345,000-share issue at $20; last week it was selling at $43.50. Superior Surgical Manufacturing Co., a textile firm that makes white garments for both doctors and bakers, has climbed from...
During the year following Pearl Harbor the United States girded itself for war. It wasn't like the last time, though. There was less cheering as the boys marched off, and more fear. But still the nation pulled together, and Harvard resolutely took up her share of the load...
...years on the air, Virginia Graham has brought on girls of such luster and bluster as Ilka Chase, Pearl Buck, Betsy Palmer, Marya Mannes, Cornelia Otis Skinner and Hermione Gingold - all of whom have variously contributed to Girl Talk's success as the brightest female panel discussion in television. Last week, at the urging of her ABC packagers ("They thought the show needed a little goosing-up"), Virginia introduced her first male panelist, David Merrick. The show bombed (Merrick was positively fatuous), and at its close, Virginia asked for a mail-in referendum on further gentlemen callers...