Word: slickness
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Harvard's widely acclaimed parietal scandal becoming a part of the rich folklore of American collegiate sex. Having made most of the major newspapers and slick magazines, the story recently drifted into the deft hands of the pulp magazine editors...
...merge in Texas. Past and present, there have always been those characters who are the stuff of legend. One saloonkeeper built a large stone mansion but insisted on an outside privy because "having one of those things in the house strikes me as un-Texan." The oil-rich Tom Slick was convinced that some men had the occult power to make sick cows well merely by thinking about them, hunted oil with "black-box" divining devices, financed expeditions (unsuccessful) to find the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas and the animal that left a legendary footprint in the woods of California...
...bright orange Volkswagen and challenged all comers in a 103-mile race. His car was a 1956 sedan with 250,000 miles on the speedometer. It was, in fact, his personal car in Nassau-and his wife fretted nervously while inspectors stripped it apart to make sure that no slick mechanic had installed a Cadillac engine. "I hope they can get it back together," she said. "This is our transportation...
...motors, and there is nothing like them any more. It is not enough to say that magazines like Playboy, Dude, Gent, and Rogue have defeated Hollywood by double exposure, although today's military barracks and college rooms are all but innocent of actresses, being decorated instead with the slick-paper mermaids of whom Mort Sahl has observed that a whole generation of American boys is growing up with the expectation that their wives will have staples in their navels. But these lifeless gatefold odalisques could hardly compete with living dolls. Hollywood's sex stars were larger than life...
...Mexican business talk, a "coyote" is a slick deal-maker who moves secretly, cultivates the right people in high places and knows how to come away with a good profit. But coyote is not an offensive label to big, jowly Carlos Trouyet, 59, a Mexico City banker and financier who prizes the title so highly that he wears in his lapel a small coyote made of diamonds. With a personal fortune of well over $15 million, Trouyet (pronounced true-jay) is a director of 42 companies and chairman of 19 of them-in telephones, steel, cement, plywood, textiles, hotels, beer...