Word: references
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, display a special affinity for unemployment compensation. As soon as Nanette Fabray finished her starring stint in the Broadway musical Mr. President, she headed for the Manhattan unemployment office to collect her $52 a week. In Hollywood, so many notables line up at Club 55 that movie people refer to it as "Central Casting." Says Chick Chandler, longtime character actor and Club 55 regular: "If you wanted to cast a very fine picture, from producers to hairdressers to extras, you could do it all by standing here for a week...
Then there was the income tax, the world wars, and a kind of modern-times puritanism that mournful Saratogians refer to scathingly as "Kefauver fever." The Spa seemed suddenly spent. The Club House became a museum, and the last open crap game had to start floating 13 years ago. The United States Hotel became a parking lot and stores, and the Grand Union is now a shopping center, with a supermarket of the same name. Broadway is a honky-tonk jumble of shoeshine stands, rooming houses and has-been hotels...
...American named Adolph J. Heimbeck, who died in 1958, cut off his two sisters because "they revere Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the taxes caused by him more than equalled their share." A 73-year-old bachelor attorney, Charles Millar, capriciously started what Canadians still refer to as the "Baby Derby" by bequeathing $568,106 "to the Mother who [in the ten years after his death] has given birth in Toronto to the greatest number of children." The ensuing fertility race shocked the nation, but on May 30, 1938, the prize was duly divided among four winners who had tied with...
butter head, chili bowl, ditty bob. Terms of contempt, used to refer to Negroes whose behavior embarrasses other Negroes...
...your story [July 12] on increasing productivity in American industry, you refer to a major innovation at Pittsburgh Plate Glass in setting up a "float process" that will "double productive capacity by adding only 100 men to its current work force...