Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside, they were singing, "One of these days about twelve o'clock/This ol' world's gonna reel and rock." One song leader suggested that the audience try to think up verses about SANE to fit the tune "Hey Lolly-Lolly-Lo." A man in the back of the room gamely called out "Let's be game and Join SANE." They gave...
Worshipping Mammon. . . Just published is a book that calls them all out of tune. Protestantism and capitalism are not interdependent, writes Swedish Economic Historian Kurt Samuelsson in Religion and Economic Action (Basic Books...
...which to film a big dinner party? Mrs. E. Fontaine Broun lent him her palatial estate, Tregaron, which once belonged to her father, the late Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. Assorted objets d'art, classy furniture and rugs? Top-name families and museums donated décor to the tune of $250,000 worth. Extras for the ball? The cream of Washington society, as well as some of the milk, volunteered. A five-room suite in the Mayflower? Democratic National Chairman John Bailey offered his, then found himself virtually evicted. A correspondents' dinner scene? Real-life correspondents were glad...
...members have called on the Fund for help, to the tune of $6 billion. Until now, the I.M.F.'s $15 billion resources, made up of contributions by member nations in proportion to their wealth, has been more than enough to answer all calls for rescue. But in the last five months so many nations have lined up for help that business at the pawnshop has already approached a record $2 billion, nearly twice the previous high of $1.1 billion for all of 1957. The biggest drain came in August, when Britain alone withdrew $1.5 billion in nine currencies...
...when whole houses will be jumping with electronic sound. Wall paint, says he, will contain "special sound-conducting chemicals mixed right into it. All you'll have to do is take your record player, a 3-in. by 3-in. box powered by molecular electronic amplifiers, and tune it onto your wall frequency. The walls will change color according to the music being played...