Word: soups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black-bearded Welsh farmer, and a London doctor, who had equipped his boat with a portable dictating machine so that he could record his own "hallucinations." A confident Frenchman, author of a book called The Atlantic for Me, started five days late, sailed gaily off into a pea-soup fog and has been sighted only briefly since...
Grimly serious, Hasler predicted victory, based his hopes on Jester, a radically designed, 25-ft. gin. boat that carried no rigging-only a single, easy-to-handle lug sail. Gentle and fun-loving co-Favorite Chichester packed his 39^-ft. Gipsy Moth III with potatoes, tomato soup, baked beans, wine, beer and whisky, took along a green smoking jacket and a red cummerbund to dress for dinner, and attached a wind vane to his rudder so the 13-ton sloop would steer itself while he slept. Asked to name his chief hazard, Chichester replied: "Being run down by an ocean...
...stay open until 4 a.m. with bands for dancing. Best jazz is at Vienna's Fatty's Saloon and the Adebar, Rome's Bricktop's on the Via Veneto, and Paris' Caveau de la Huchette. To end the evening, Paris has the traditional onion soup at Les Halles, Paris' great produce market. There is also Le Drug Store on the Champs Elysées, where the spécialtiés de la maison are hamburgers...
Varied Menus. Presently out in front is Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. (1959 gross income: $140.5 million), which both makes and operates vending machines. Automatic Canteen has developed a battery of vending machines that offer a complete snack line including infra-red toasted sandwiches, hot soup, chili, baked beans, pastry, coffee and cigarettes. Says Automatic Canteen Chairman Nathaniel Leverone: "The sales potential in in-plant feeding alone is at least as great as the entire automatic vending business is now." In an industry where profits for operating companies run about 3% of sales after taxes, Automatic Canteen expects...
...They ushered in the lollipop look. "My husband doesn't like them," explains a California housewife. "Every time I bend over, he says I look like a lollipop. So one day I wore a dress. First, I caught it in the car door. Then the baby poured soup in my lap. To top it all off, the grocer asked me if I were expecting another child. I've been wearing pants ever since." Next to pants, the staple is the simple, classic shirtwaist dress. It is now-thanks largely to new synthetic fibers and treated cottons -sturdy, wrinkleproof...