Word: wearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico's idle rich to Mexico's idle poor. The lower class-still more than two-thirds of Mexico's population of nearly 33 million-is made up of slimly nourished Indians, peons and drifters who barely manage to stay alive on beans and tortillas, who wear huaraches or go barefoot, who live in Mexico's 2,000,000 adobe hovels, who never spend more than a few pesos from the time they are born until they die. The upper class, socially defined, consists of between 300 and 500 families who are the remnants...
...leading contenders, some might wear themselves out doing dressing-room nip-ups before 1960, others might trip over the ropes while entering the ring, others might be kayoed with one presidential primary punch. There will always be more to take their places, but as of this week, six Democrats had emerged from the 1958 elections looking fittest. The six: Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, California's Governor-elect Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, and New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner...
...second largest exporter of copper, fourth largest of tobacco-a land dotted with modern cities and rich in asbestos, coal, lithium, chrome and cobalt. But in the stretch of the Zambesi River Valley, soon to be flooded by the Kariba Dam, the Stone Age Tonga tribe still wear porcupine quills in their noses, and in Northern Rhodesia, Barotseland is regularly plagued by gruesome ritual murders. In the whole federation there are only four Negro physicians and three Negro lawyers, among 7,100,000 blacks. Ever since the federation was formed, the cry of more and more blacks has been "Kwaca...
...look shaggy in spite of it, he ambles into class apparently costumed to stalk moose, was once accused by Yale President A. Whitney Griswold, when they were both young instructors, of aging his sport coats in a manure pile. He has been known, on a winter day, to wear a neckpiece of red flannel underwear...
...conquering the West Coast with some of the most wildly funny shows of his career. Paar and guests (among them: Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Hans Conreid) splashed inspired nonsense all over the screen. Biggest splasher: muffin-faced Pianist and Professional Psychopath Oscar Levant ("On my own show I wear black tie and strait jacket"). Oscar warmly congratulated Paar-"You have the most responsive audience since Adolf Hitler in the good old days"-offered capsule analyses of a few colleagues. Eddie and Liz: "How high can you stoop?" Elsa Maxwell: "The oldest woman still subsisting on a scholarship." Zsa Zsa Gabor...