Word: vanilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Papa's Delicate Condition. "Vanilla." That's what Jackie Gleason calls his latest picture and that's what it basically is: sweet enough for the kids, plain enough for the grown folks-something the whole family can swallow without collywobbles. The concoction is inexpensive and attractive, and it should leave most customers ready (if not exactly roaring) for a second helping...
...bicycling only) that came with the outfit. They may still have one in jersey left over from last summer but, more likely they will follow the trend to offbeat fabrics ranging all the way from suede to satin. An occasional girl will turn up in a plain old vanilla terry-cloth jacket or playsuit, but most of her fellow travelers will sport the same fabric colored purple, cerise or tangerine. The beach-bound set will wander the islands in shirts that follow the Pucci dictum (find two colors that cannot go along quietly, put them together, and toss in five...
...HOME For dieters who do it the Metrecal way but were never wild about the taste, Mead Johnson & Co. last week promised some alternates to the old powder, liquid and wafer forms and to the old flavors (vanilla, butterscotch and chocolate). To be introduced across the U.S. this month...
Exports: Coffee, vanilla, rice. Per capita income: $75. U.S. aid (1961): $500,000. World's fourth largest island, it is seriously underdeveloped, underpopulated. Staunchly anti-Communist nation is key member of moderate Brazzaville group...
This dismay is understandable. The main island and nearby Moorea-James Michener's Bali Ha'i-comprise the classical setting of the unspoiled Polynesian dream: dazzling beaches, translucent water, rich landscapes with green-yellow vanilla patches. Living up to legend, the people are warm, easygoing, unobsessed with the failures of yesterday or the portents of tomorrow. (Though the women are shapely, they are not all beautiful; and most wear conventional clothing-more or less...