Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...higher paycheck than the middle-ager. The average age for incomes of $10,000 to $15,000 is 47, for incomes of $15,000 and up, 51. This makes delayed pleasures possible. A man may have been sports-car minded for years, but when he climbs behind the wheel of a Mustang, his average age is 48. With no small children underfoot, husbands and wives discover the pleasures of each other's company, share convention trips, take that second honeymoon to Europe...
...Particularly toward evening, when the air cools and the water stills, the President takes to 22-mile-long Lake Lyndon B. Johnson, often searching out a secluded cove where he and his party can have privacy from peering eyes. Clamping down his yellow golfer's cap, clenching the wheel like a vise, Johnson really opens up the throttle, leaving broad wakes and gaping mouths behind him. He goes so fast, in fact, that the Secret Service has had to buy two new speedboats to keep up with him when he is at full throttle (four boats in all accompany...
...Jones?" What is happening is that the folk-rock movement, heady with the success of its big-message-with-a-big-beat songs (TIME, Sept. 17, 1965), has been prompted to try racier, more exciting themes. It is no longer down with the P.T.A. and conformism, but-wheel-onward with LSD and lechery...
...catered to Africa's desire to upgrade itself by moving into manufacturing and more advanced marketing. From Malawi to the Ivory Coast, it makes cosmetics, brews beer and packs meat-all of which it sells in Unilever stores. In Nigeria, U.A.C. subsidiaries assemble Willys Jeeps and six-wheel "mammy wagons," produce 80% of the country's corrugated paperboard and containers, also dominate the marketing of bicycles and building materials, and sell telecommunications equipment and earth-moving machinery. In a way, Unilever is as powerful as a nation. The largest employer in tropical Africa, it has 61,500 workers...
...despair, Granddad. As of right now, from Maine to California, the lit tle blister can be scooped up and taken out to any one of more than a dozen trolley museums. He can see the long, spring-mounted pole that held the round grooved wheel ^That's the trolley") against the overhead electric wire. He can see where the motorman stood, his foot on the button that rang the bell ("One clang for stopping, two for starting"). He will also learn, if he listens, that by 1918 the bobbed-hair and spats set had their pick of some...