Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four weeks ago, the record is more or less sung by Brian Hyland, 16, a hitherto unpublicized and untrained singer from Queens, who was "discovered" last year by a talent agent who heard him singing in the lobby of Manhattan's Brill Building, headquarters of Tin Pan Alley. Itsy Bitsy has already sold 600,000 copies, is all over the jukeboxes, TV and radio, in fact all over everything except the poor little unnamed girl in the song...
...South Africa and India -and written books about both-cabled a veritable volume of 32,500 words of valuable background material on Ambassador MacArthur and postwar Japan for this week's cover story, constantly wired the running story as the demonstrations crescendoed. Campbell found that his green tin hat, with "TIME-LIFE" in white letters on front, proved to be a passport. In their polite Japanese way, police and demonstrators alike stopped to clear a path for him as he crossed back and forth through the embattled lines. From a rooftop vantage point in Premier Kishi's compound...
...votes, will take over a bankrupt country on Aug. 6. Bolivia has no treasury reserves, is almost wholly dependent on the U.S., whose $150 million subsidy has kept the country going for the past seven years. Per capita annual income has fallen 10% (to $60) since 1956; the tin mines that Paz Estenssoro nationalized in 1952 are now losing Bolivia $9,000,000 a year, cannot fill their quotas under the inter national tin agreement even though they employ more men than ever. In his victory statement Paz Estenssoro called for "revolutionary order." But his incoming Vice President and revolutionary...
...press release on the event last week, it tactfully announced: "We invite the press to name this new art form for us." The press was at a loss too, for much of the "new art form" is a bewildering jumble of horrors: tortured junk and bric-a-brac, flattened tin cans and old clothes, or simply an old chair with its innards ripped...
Haul No. 1 caught two oldsters who used a new Moskvich sedan to make the rounds of Moscow churches. One of them would dress in rags and rattle a tin cup at the church door while the other whipped out of the car's luggage compartment an assortment of crucifixes, icons, tracts and lamps and did a brisk business at a fat profit until the counterfeit beggar tipped him off that the cops were coming. One day the agents of the Department for Fighting Theft and Speculation seized...