Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bitter Controversy. The fastest rise in air-freight shipments has been among the major U.S. trunk airlines-United, TWA, American and Pan American-which are predominantly passenger carriers. This fact has involved them in a bitter controversy with the all-cargo lines, such as Slick and Flying Tiger, which claim that the encroachments of the big lines could drive them out of business. Most of the big lines are losing money on their cargo operations, but these losses are balanced out by the current rich profits from passenger travel. The Civil Aeronautics Board, sympathetic to the plight...
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...
Inside News, a flamboyant tabloid with a prurient fixture of horror ("He Tickled Her to Death") and sex, told its readers that "The Undergrads Are Oversexed" at Harvard and other Ivy schools. The current number of Whisper, a slick covered bi-monthly what promises "The Stories Behind the Headlines," Harries a lengthy account of "Harvard's Special Night course...
...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...