Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...14th an nual Christmas tour of U.S. overseas installations, the comic slipped off a backstage platform and sailed into the arms of a burly security man, who broke the fall a bit. With two ligaments torn in his left ankle, Bob went on anyhow, even limped through a soft-shoe routine with Actress Carroll Baker. Later the leg was taped up to ease the "shooting pains," but Hope was cracking happily that his North Hollywood draft board had already given him a physical exam. "And then," he said, "they burned my draft card...
Under Shuman's plan, dubbed Marketing Food for Freedom, U.S. agricultural products would no longer be sold for "Mickey Mouse money," as Farm Bureau staffers call the soft currencies the U.S. takes in counterpart-fund payments for its food. Instead, the Government would buy food for foreign countries, give away 20% to the neediest and poorest nations, and distribute the remainder on credit to be paid off in dollars. His program, said Shuman, would eventually eliminate money spent on Food for Peace as well as the annual $3 billion subsidy doled out to farmers...
Both papers carry advice for U.S. servicemen. The Post was happy to tell its readers how to get quick service at the local pubs: "A soft-shoe dance on the bar with combat boots is generally recommended for immediate attention from the establishment's personnel. Other attention-getting devices are obscene noises, self-immolation on the bar stool, a quick change into a bedouin sheik in the toilet, riding in on a water buffalo, faking an epileptic seizure...
Coke College. Wisconsin-born Sandy Atwood, 53, has similarly put new life into Emory, once known as the "Coca-Cola college" because of its endowment by soft-drink tycoons. Since his arrival in Atlanta from Cornell (TIME, July 19, 1963), he has recruited a more dynamic faculty, launched a $25 million fund drive, raised admission standards and tuition. "If you're giving good education, there's no reason you shouldn't charge for it," he says...
...goes her way heedless, decorating her arboreal center in bright lights of soft colors, draping venerable trees with blues and greens. She even puts some change in the Salvation Army pot as she trundles back from Jordan's or Bonwit's. You may feel peculiarly "out" as you watch her, for holidays are not times for strangers. But she is not to be missed--none of the magic of New York, mind you, or even the plasticity of Los Angeles, but still something quite remarkable in her own way. How long can it last, you ask yourself? How long before...