Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Karen Sue Beineman, 18, a freshman at Eastern Michigan University, was a cautious and sensible girl. On July 23, in Ypsilanti, Mich., she told clerks in a wig shop that she had done only two foolish things in her life. One was to buy herself a wig. The other: to accept a ride from a stranger, who was wait ing outside for her on his motorcycle...
...seemed as if all of its 9,000,000 citizens had become instant Romans. There were Pope Paul coins, Pope Paul stamps and Pope Paul folk songs, including a pop calypso that likened the Pontiff's visit to "a shooting star in the dark of the night." Shop-door signs along the papal route proclaimed "Pepsi Welcomes the Pope...
...officials feel that the old private owners of the L.I.R.R. allowed the unions to run the railroad and perpetuate featherbedding. Union men fear that the M.T.A. intends to eliminate jobs. A legacy of labor-management bitterness has been left by a slowdown last summer in the Dunton car-repair shop, which has never returned to its old operating pace, and a week of wildcat strikes and slowdowns that greeted the introduction of a new timetable last fall. One commuter recently phoned for train information and was told by a recorded voice that his call was being held for the next...
...worth of goods manufactured on the Chinese mainland. Substantively, the changes could not be considered as very important. As the U.S. expected, Peking immediately denounced them, though in fairly calm language. Obviously, few Americans will be given entry visas by Peking. While the announcement probably brought joy to the shop owners in Hong Kong, the $100 allowance will have little effect on the economy there or in China (see BUSINESS). But in diplomacy, symbolism is often as valuable as substance. The move betokened American willingness to try to reduce tensions with the Chinese, an effort pleasing to many...
...typical autobiographical Babel childhood story, the reader slips into the author's atmosphere of old Odessa as if it were a familiar coat. Within a framework of shop-lined streets, savory meals and sturdy furnishings, the young narrator casually spins the tale of his grandmother, an embittered illiterate who urges her grandson to study hard and learn everything. To her, knowledge is not an instrument of discovery but a weapon of revenge that will bring the world to its knees...