Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against marauding mountain lions. In the revived ghost town of Virginia City, cars disgorged Midwestern tourists to gaze at Piper's Opera House and Lucius Beebe's Territorial Enterprise. Around Reno, candidates for grass widowhood whiled away their residence on dude ranches. Along Las Vegas' gaudy Strip, vacationers pumped the slot machines and queued up for ten-course $1.25 lunches. And at a state convention in Hawthorn (pop. 3,700), Nevada's Democratic Party was practically taken over lock, stock and barrel by one of the most remarkable new figures in U.S. politics: Errett Lobban Cord...
...eating club picnic and party featuring two strip teasers has resulted in the expulsion of six Princeton undergraduates and the suspension of several others...
...than any other car in history. Now fourth, it is pushing Plymouth for third place. Among the low-priced three, the fancy Chevrolet Impala and Ford Fairlane 500 outsell less chromy models by three to one. On Ford's custom line, there is a decorative gold-anodized-aluminum strip (along with an armrest and cigarette lighter) that costs $20 extra; 76% of Ford's customers demand it on their cars. Says Ford Stylist Walker: "I fought so hard against chrome I nearly lost my job. But I was wrong, and the others were right. People can buy austerity...
...minimum wage unless it was accompanied by a tighter job-security clause in their new contract. But behind the talk of security was a looming new threat to their jobs: video tape, the electronic wonder that can record both TV's sounds and images on a magnetized plastic strip. Unlike film, such tape needs no processing, can reproduce what it has heard and seen-a second or a century later (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). The reproduced image on the TV screen is far superior to film, and distinguishable from live shows only by experts...
...fortunate few-life with all its Chinese lanterns, lovely tunes and gay sadness." He doted on good food, elegant restaurants and fine cigars, and was so faithful a connoisseur of burlesque that he followed it from Manhattan into wistful exile in New Jersey's flea-bitten strip operas. In his seedy, cluttered hotel apartment near Times Square, Bon Vivant Nathan stored a three-year cache of champagne "in case of siege." In and out of print he loved nothing better than a pretty girl-and feared nothing worse than being married to one. In 1955, after a 17-year...