Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When C-day finally arrived last week, many Aussies still could not make head or tail of the new money. Store clerks and customers bickered over conversions, and some stores, having advertised in the new dollars, switched back to sterling when business fell off. Commuters, confused by small-change transactions on buses, tossed their odd pennies out of the windows while crossing Sydney Harbor Bridge. Most of the country's 500,000 coin-handling and tabulating machines, from pay telephones to cash registers, still have to be changed, a move that will be made over the next two years...
...Retire?" cried Actress Helen Hayes at a Manhattan Book and Author luncheon. "Never. I'll come back gratefully wagging my tail just as soon as someone offers me a good part that doesn't depress me." Helen already had the offer. Next day she reported that, at 65, she is beginning a new career as a repertory player with Manhattan's Association of Producing Artists-Phoenix troupe. "It has brought back the glow to my cheeks," raved Helen. "I'm thrilled at the prospect of the sort of plays that I love-plays of substance...
...whistle. Where once the North American dog had to beg for his supper and sleep outdoors on the welcome mat, now he is stuffed with Gaines Burgers, sprayed with Kennel No. 5, given the softest living-room sofa, and dolled up in costumes that should make Lassie hide her tail between her legs...
...better if we would show ourselves a little more relaxed and less terrified of what happens in the smaller countries of Asia and Africa, and not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse every time these things occur." While he did not advocate that the U.S. "turn tail and flee from the scene," he agreed with an earlier witness, retired Lieut. General James Gavin, that it should hole up in selected enclaves and strike a strictly defensive stance. Kennan left no doubt (see box) that he was unhappy about "this unpromising involvement in a remote and secondary theater...
...editors, reporters and publishers to talk some aspects of shop. These dinners are actually the only time that the Nieman program comes close to resembling a trade school. This aspect of Nieman deserves attention, and obviously some speakers are better (or worse) than others, but it is hardly the tail which wags...