Word: strippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each falling leaf of the political calendar and each new poll showing Lyndon Johnson's vulnerability strip a layer of noncandidacy from the not-yet candidates. Last week most of Johnson's would-be opponents-including the putative independent, George Wallace-were out in force, all looking and talking like committed campaigners...
...industry, Inland last week reported that earnings through the year's first nine months had dropped 29% from 1966 levels. Among other things depressing profits is the cost of Inland's ambitious modernization, including its first basic-oxygen furnace shop and a new computer-controlled hot-strip mill. His eyes turned toward the future, Joe Block has logged $250 million in capital expenditures over the past two years, huge outlays for a company with an annual sales level of about $1 billion...
...Michael. Rosko sports a marmalade-colored fur coat and travels in a Rolls-Royce with his bodyguard, tapes his show and sends it to Radio One from Paris, where, speaking passably good French, he is also the country's No. 1 disk jockey. The Emperor, who likes to strip to the waist before he assaults the microphone, is teaching the scream scene to other disk jockeys in France. As for the rest of Europe, well, all the Emperor says is that he isn't mastering Spanish, Italian, German and Russian for nothing...
...South Viet Nam is much akin to U.S. principles (TIME, Oct 13). Otherwise, about all that is left the journalists is to resort to humor, as Richmond Times-Dispatch Columnist Ed Grimsley did last week. "Clearly what the country needs," he wrote, "is a defoliation expert-not to strip the jungles of Viet Nam but to defoliate the tangled thicket of contradictory views the Government officials, political leaders and journalistic pundits express on the war." Another Grimsley possibility: "Let Howard Hughes move into a Hanoi hotel and quietly buy up all of North Viet Nam before anybody knows what...
...appointment for the interview was at 1 p.m. in the Doors' Sunset Strip offices. But it seemed a little early for most of the group. "You see," Jim explained later, always polite and anxious to make a good impression, "we played at a late set last night at the Cheetah" (an acid discotheque in Los Angeles, one of the most advanced of its type in the United States...