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Word: ticker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lower Broadway, shredded phone books and chopped newsprint spewed from high windows that opened over the motorcade. At city hall, the Army band shook the ticker tape from its tubas and blew a manful Marseillaise, while the trip hammers of nearby street wreckers and a 21-gun salute shattered the Manhattan noon. To France's visiting President Charles de Gaulle, it must have seemed as if New York City had emptied its wastebaskets on his head and blown up the seat of government by way of greeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vive Chicago! | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...time Riesel hung up the telephone, his assistants, Miriam Goldfine and Dulcie Ponon, had arrived. Dulcie clipped and read to Riesel portions of the news coming in on the U.P.I, ticker; she also read selectively from the other New York morning papers, including the Wall Street Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Shadow World | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...their skimpy treatment of the "event which has thrilled millions of people." Songs are being written about the exploit, and teams of artists are at work designing posters and painting canvases. When they finally get home next week, the four sailormen will have the Moscow equivalent of a ticker-tape parade and a triumphal reception worthy of Madison Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HIGH SEAS: Four Simple Soviet Lads | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...Hicoupet Mark III sports car. U.S. price: $49.95. Obviously, Detroit will soon be just a swallowed Miltown. The hero pulls his thumb out of his mouth, strips to his Bermuda shorts, and shouts: "This is a job for Business Man!" He is, of course, "faster than a speeding ticker tape, more powerful than a goon squad, able to leap loopholes in a single bound." He does all this on the stage of a Chicago coffeehouse-nightclub called the Second City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Satire in Chicago | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...joined President Kubitschek in an open White House Lincoln (flown from Washington for the occasion). Together the two Presidents rode through a wild, carnival-mood welcome by 750,000 happy cariocas. "Benvindo, Eekee! [Welcome, Ike!]" was heard everywhere. The warm summer air was filled with flower petals and ticker tape (a trick the Brazilians learned from watching U.S. newsreels), and the Ficus trees along Rio Branco Avenue looked like maypoles under their drapery of serpentine and confetti. Music-from God Bless America to Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus, with a strong obbligato of carnival songs and sambas-rang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Benvindo, Eekee! | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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