Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newest in the successful line-up are Mr. Laffs, which goes in for major-league baseball players, and Maxwell's Plum, decorated in "spontaneous American" by Owner Warner LeRoy, 31, son of the Hollywood producer, who sees his pub as "a revolution between the old-style pickup bar and a new café. We act as catalysts to the very gregarious, but on a high level." So high, LeRoy claims, that "Timothy Leary used to come in every evening, and one night we refused Bobby Kennedy because there was no room...
...than 2,400 singles turned up for opening night. Whether in Boston's Back Bay, Chicago's Near North Side or San Francisco's Montgomery Street, the dating bars are providing career girls with a sorely needed new meeting ground. "No one thinks you are a pickup," insists Bonnie Cancienne, 23, a San Francisco securities analyst who graduated from Berkeley last year. "The people I would like to meet would be horrified to think of me that...
...order to stay in touch with his students, Alden holds twice-monthly breakfasts with them and semiannual conferences at which they can grill him on any topic they wish. He also plans to spend occasional nights in the dorms. Alden often shucks his glasses and joins students in a pickup basketball game on the court behind the presidential house. His kind of enthusiasm spreads to his staff. At many universities, says Fine Arts Dean Jack Morrison, things "slow down at the top-but that's where things begin to swing around here...
Called the Jeepster, a name appropriated from an early Willys model, it retains the familiar boxy design, but otherwise is a far cry from the vintage Jeep. Roadster, pickup truck and station-wagon versions (price: $2,300 to $4,000) are available, but the series' mainstay is a convertible featuring bucket seats, chrome spinner wheels, continental spare tire, and regular windows instead of isinglass curtains-plus such options as air conditioning, automatic transmission and power brakes...
Last week the band was getting an extra push from other recording outfits who have rushed yet new versions of Winchester to the stores. RCA Victor's group, the Palm Beach Band Boys, is actually a Manhattan pickup combo led by an RCA executive who croons while holding his nose. He must be doing something right...