Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was not a single case of rape in Terre Haute last year. Oh, a few college girls hollered rape, but it really wasn't." Other citizens argued that the trollops kept the college boys contented: despite campus turmoil from coast to coast, Indiana State has had no serious student riots or disturbances...
Divorces are hardly news in the cinema world. But when Star Alain Delon and his svelte wife Nathalie came to a final parting last week on the grounds of "serious mutual insult," a great many people found the event worthy of special note as the latest and inevitable in stallment in one of those long-running scandals that Paris so cherishes. Last week Nathalie was in Rome making a new movie, and Alain was before the cameras in Paris. For months, however, both have been the cause of a cause celebre that has everything - sex, politics, murder and decadence...
...National Assembly. Le Troquer made a habit of wrapping nubile young girls in antique carpets and delivering the bundles to aging revelers. But that was a long time past. The choicest scandal is always the present scandal, and in Parisian salons there was a delicious feeling that the "serious mutual insult" cited in the Delon divorce might well spread through several more households-and government bureaus-before the end of "L'affaire Markovic...
...potency can be dramatically stimulated for a few months by an affair with a younger woman, he will usually revert to the same pattern he had maintained with his coeval wife. According to Sociologist Clark Vincent, on the other hand, there is more likelihood of serious differences in sexual appetite among coevals than among May-December couples. Vincent's theory, however, has yet to be verified...
...half-serious flights of fancy, humorists have lately envisioned an economic future in which International Everything, Inc. and about a dozen similar finance-manufacturing-retailing combines take over half of the nation's business. Corporate consolidation has a long way to go to reach such extremes, but it is certainly moving in that direction at an accelerating speed. Never before have U.S. companies been caught in such a powerful and persistent tide of mergers, raids and takeover attempts. The volume of mergers doubled last year, when firms paid a record $43 billion-mostly in securities-to acquire...