Word: pies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climax of this primitive business is a custard-pie war in a beatnik beer and poetry parlor. Pie-facing, like pratfalling, seems to be a lost art nowadays, and Avalon desecrates the memory of Deadpan Harry Langdon: he stands there and actually squinches up his eyes before the strawberry cream splatters all over his pretty face. Nonetheless, Annette goes ape for Frankie, crooning "I was such a fool/ To treat him so crool...
Nothing Royal. Getting the summer customer into the hotel, though, is only half the battle. Coming from the center of the pie rather than the upper crust, the off-season tourist makes his dollar stretch a country mile. Many Nassau bars and restaurants close down for the summer, and the specialty-shop operators yearn for winter's big-time spenders. "In the winter they buy Royal Crown Derby," says a Virgin Islands china-shop owner. "In the summer, it's Heinrich." Social directors sometimes grouse that the summer people are unschooled in resort life. "They...
...incoming passengers, 2) a Customs Academy, which would eventually turn out inspectors so expert in snap judgment that they could simply glance at a woman's face and know whether her spiked heels were full of contraband. As it is, the simplified "oral declarations" remain a pie-in-the-sky practice except for air arrivals at Miami and Idlewild. As for New York's outmoded docks, Nichols concludes, "I can't see anything happening in the next five years that will be better than an aspirin for a man with cancer...
Istel has imported improvements. The jolt of the opening chute is eliminated by the use of a German invention, a sleeve that slowly deploys the inflating canopy instead of letting it snap open with a jerk. Open gores, or pie-shaped sections cut out of the canopy, developed by the British and Russians, permit the parachutist to steer by tugging on the wooden toggles attached to the risers. He insists that for the first five jumps the chutes be opened automatically by a static line attached to the aircraft. After that, the adventurous jumper can essay the free fall...
Congress already has before it about 100 versions of Ribicoff's college-tuition relief plan, which would clearly aid middle-income families because they get less of the scholarship pie than poorer parents. Such tax relief, however, would leave colleges in a quandary. Those that depend heavily on tuition, particularly Catholic colleges, would be tempted to raise tuition, leaving parents where they were...