Word: womens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...binoculars to see from one side to the other." What the bowlers also saw was the latest sample of how the bowling boom has changed the once smoky, dusty, somewhat disreputable hangout for men into a family and community recreation center. Edison Lanes not only offers special promotions for women bowlers and cut rates for children, it also opens its meeting rooms free for Boy Scouts and teenagers, plans to add a nursery...
...three weeks of free bowling, also tossed in lessons, coffee and baby sitting on the house. By following this pattern (often adding closed-circuit TV for mothers to watch their children in the nursery from the lanes), alleys have made it possible to fill once-idle morning hours with women bowlers. Explains General Manager George Paul Smith of Scioto Lanes outside Columbus, Ohio: "If we don't get the women we're through...
Sparkling Stockings. A nylon for women's formal-wear hosiery that sparkles slightly was put on the market by DuPont. Price: about $2.50 a pair...
...your luck is good, King Romulus keeps saying, you can get away with anything, from the murder of a twin brother (Remus) to the rape of the Sabine women. While his ragtag followers, mostly brigands and landless peasants, build the new city of Rome on the left bank of the Tiber, Romulus keeps on talking. He is, he assures them, the son of the war god Mars, and was suckled by a she-wolf as a baby. As presented by British Author Duggan, that veteran rewrite man of ancient history (Winter Quarters, King of Pontus), Rome's founder...
...turn of the century, Japan had acquired the trappings and some of the attitudes of the West. Baseball, beer, and business suits were popular in the upper classes, but attitudes toward women and money were traditional. Kan-ichi, a poorly-off University student, loves Miya, whose parents have arranged a marriage with wealthy Tomiyama. Miya is not submissive about giving up her lover, but her parents tell her that after marrying Tomiyama she will secretly be able to help Kan-ichi continue his schooling in Europe, acting as a "sister" to him. Her sacrifice, of course, is futile since...