Word: strippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party may adjourn to the gaudy strip of nightclubs outside the base. Or there is always the officers' club, where one of the favorite drinks is a MIG-21, a paralyzing concoction consisting of three jiggers of Scotch and one jigger of Drambuie on the rocks. Some base areas have their own bowling alleys, miniature-golf courses and radio stations that broadcast American pop music. Between their briefings, missions and postflight critiques, however, many pilots are often too busy or too tired to care much about recreation. The schedule is so hectic, in fact, that the Ubon officers...
Odds Against Amateurs. For more sophisticated plungers, options come in varied forms with arcane names-"strips," "straps," "straddles" and "spreads"-that conjure up visions of the Marquis de Sade. Actually, they are only combinations of puts and calls. A straddle is a put and a call on the same stock at the same price; a spread is a straddle with a different price on the put and call; a strip is a straddle with double-sized put; while a strap is a straddle with a double call...
...ENDANGERED WILDLIFE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The first of eight NBC news specials outlining the American Profile. Ed Dodd, conservationist and creator of the Mark Trail cartoon strip, narrates this study of the various animals and birds in danger of extinction...
...more opportunity than ever to achieve ruin. Speculation in the prospering U.S. has become not merely an easy but an enviable thing to do. For little money down and years to pay the balance, an Iowa farmer or Rhode Island schoolteacher can acquire without seeing it a small strip of Florida that is bound to quadruple in value-or so the salesmen hint, using a Will Rogers slogan, "Buy land, they're not makin' it any more." Art has become as much of a speculative exercise as an esthetic experience; collectors have bought millions of dollars worth...
...employee payments Aug. 1 were squeezing earnings. Other producers followed, and the Administration did not press its fight. At 1.8%, the bar price rise was small indeed. But the industry is now on notice to be wary of taking the rumored next step: a boost in sheet and strip steel, which as a key auto-industry item would be certain to have wide impact...