Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christopher reckons that at least half of the popular Pancho Villa or Zapata mustaches seen in her Manhattan discotheque, Arthur, are phonies. Narcotics agents regard hoked-up hairiness as an invaluable aid in infiltrating hippie drug circles, and servicemen feel an added hank of hair increases chances that the weekend pass will be completed. According to one mother, her son and all his friends at Fort Sill, Okla., have ordered mustaches and beards by mail...
Tougher for Speculators. The welcome calm was fostered both by Viet Nam peace hopes and by the previous weekend's international agreement in Stockholm on the creation of paper gold to bolster the world's monetary system. Three new restrictions imposed by the Bank of England, which regulates British financial dealings, also made trading tougher for speculators. The bank forbade sales of gold for future delivery, barred banks or gold dealers from lending foreign currency to nonresidents to finance gold buying, and even prohibited them from accepting gold as collateral for loans in foreign monies. For their part...
Johnson probably wrote more of the speech than any major talk he has ever given. Saturday afternoon he toiled over it in the sunshine on the south lawn. Working past midnight he went over it line by line, carrying pencils and i draft of the speech with him all weekend to sitting-room and dining-room, bedroom and study...
...Nancy is that she still has not had time to complete her freshman year at Notre Dame University in Nelson, B.C. So last week, at the peak of her career, she made an announcement: "I have to set some new goals. One of them is a college degree." Next weekend, after the season's final meet at Heavenly Valley, Calif., Nancy will retire-which ought to make the French and Austrians even happier...
...accord arrived at in Stockholm last weekend moved the international monetary system another uneasy step away from disaster. Nine of the top ten financial powers of the non-Communist world reached agreement on the form of a new kind of international money - paper gold - to supplement dollars, pounds and real gold in bank rolling world trade and investment. France refused to go along...