Word: tans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Signor Pretti. To see how the point was sinking in, a TIME correspondent last week accompanied a Coke salesman on his round of Milan. A few minutes before 8, dark, heavy-set Giovanni Pretti, 30, had put on his tan & red uniform and cast a last look into the mirror from which signs asked him: "Hair Combed? Shaved? Uniform Clean and Neat? Shoes Shined? Friendly Smile?" He lovingly polished his brand-new Bianchi truck (one of 62 now covering Milan) and climbed into his seat...
Lindsey lent out 37 horns, sold eight more at $3 each. Then 60 hunters sallied forth one night last week. For eight hours they stumbled through scrub-oak thickets, squawking dismally. Turkey went along in his campaign suit (double-breasted gabardine) and tan oxfords, stepped gingerly around rain puddles...
...last week, Intermountain could report real progress. "First off," says Dr. Boyce, "we licked the homesickness problem." Instead of using monochromes of traditional grey or tan, he painted their schoolrooms with "the desert colors the children know-turquoise blue, sandstone red and sage green." He organized sports and hobby groups in knitting, beading, pottery, carving and square dancing...
Hustling, bustling Indo-Chinese Nguyen Van Tan had little time for the political debate so popular with his countrymen in Paris. He was too busy with the practical side of politics. A onetime tailor and tourist guide in Saigon, Nguyen after World War II made himself invaluable to the French with his talent for purchasing hard-to-get rice for their forces fighting Indo-China's Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh. It was said in Saigon that Nguyen could buy rice in the very heart of a Ho-held village and ship it out to the French...
...Luigi, the new, extraverted Howard wears tasseled shoes, owns a pedigreed Airedale and lives in a penthouse. He drives a Cadillac convertible with the top down, even though it's bad for his sinus, smokes a pipe though he prefers cigarettes, goes to Palm Springs for his sun tan though he would rather go to San Francisco, stay indoors and read. During rehearsals he regularly throws calculated tantrums, thumps the table, bites his necktie and otherwise acts as an uninhibited genius is expected to act. His actors view these antics with mixed emotions, but one of them has conceded...