Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worn across the way in the frats), they watch Dr. Kildare and that "cute" David Janssen on Fuge. Vassar hard-core viewers categorically refuse to bring outsiders up to date on Peyton Place. And at most women's colleges, a few devotees check every lunch hour for the soap operas, no doubt preparing for life as a housewife...
...GOOD TIME. Without resorting to soap-operatic mush or clinical psychologizing, Bill Naughton has written a sharp-eyed comedy about a pair of newlyweds with an intimate problem and problem parents. Naughton has some very funny things to say, and Donald Wolfit and Marjorie Rhodes say them with high talent and polished expertise...
...more often Miss Picker's details gently evoke of a certain shabby idealism: the women speak reverently of vitamins, reminisce about a sister's wedding, discuss soap opera without being able to remember the endings. That the pretty waitress should look back at being a drum majorette as the highlight of her life is a perfect touch...
...experiments are well along to make auto-headlight glass from sugar and to substitute sugar for the fats in soap detergents; sugar dissolves easily, does not cause water pollution. And, quite beyond these uses, sugar has one major value that no nation dare ignore: from the rum and cachaza of Brazil to Indonesian Arak, it is the universal base for alcoholic drinks. In Peru, where a drop in the U.S. import quota has caused a 220,000-ton sugar surplus, W. R. Grace & Co. intends to solve a national economic crisis in an ingenious way: Grace will use the excess...
...long career as a British journalist, Malcolm Muggeridge, 61, one time editor of Punch, has more than earned his reputation as an incorrigible professional iconoclast. Muggeridge is never happier than when assaulting the Establishment - any Establishment. "A royal soap opera," was his considered judgment, in the Saturday Evening Post, of Britain's royal family. Last week, in the lively New York Review of Books, Critic Muggeridge opened fire on a transatlantic target: the John F. Kennedy legend...