Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been made in Paris. Spanish officials called the visit "more picturesque than political," but Andorrans did not ponder De Gaulle's mysterious ways for long. They reopened their shutters and went back to catering to the thousands of lesser Frenchmen who come to Andorra each year to shop for tax-free bargains...
...proposition was this. All the evil in the world, the race hate and his own decline was caused by the devil and the CIA. It was the same shop-worn devil but now, in this century, no longer served by solitary, gutted souls but by an institution. There is so little poetry in the CIA, so much that is pedestrian and mean that no one but George could dare to attribute cosmic force to it. He carried it off though. He always had a cigarette in his mouth when he said it and tilted his head back waiting...
...styles, including long hair, originated. Good grooming is the most visible part of it; any investment, however steep, pays off just beyond the hair stylist's door. It is worth noting that, since 1953, the U.S. male has spent more money-and conceivably more time-in the beauty shop. The manufacture of perfumed products for men has risen by 400% since 1950; some colognes are now sold by the gallon. In 1948, two out of three men used aftershave lotions; today nine...
There is hardly a mod shop from San Francisco and New York City to London and Paris that does not have its supply of see-through inflatable vinyl pillows decorated with boldly colored patterns silk-screened on the inside. When they first appeared a year ago, pillows seemed like just another passing pop phenomenon. Instead, they have proved to be the precursor of a new school of design that believes furniture ought to be, or at least look, invisible. Using vinyls and plastics, young American and European designers are now mass-producing chairs, sofas and tables that...
Died. Frank Perkins, 79, founder of the world's largest producer of diesel engines; after a long illness; in Peterborough, England. Inventor in 1932 of a fuel-injection device that gave higher diesel horsepower with much less weight, Perkins built his small shop into the giant of its field, with annual sales of $980 million when he retired 30 years later...