Word: yen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japanese yen for "play beds" started slowly enough. First there were the "come-come" models-twins that shot together at the flick of a button. Soon came the "miracle series," or circular double beds, each installed on a turntable on the floor and surrounded by such inbred in-bed necessities as a TV set, refrigerator, hi-fi and completely stocked bar. Only a handful of fun-loving householders could afford a price range of $1,000-$13,000, of course, but the Western-style hideaway hotels in the countryside snapped up the beddos. Hotel guests were only too delighted...
...administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency under President Kennedy, former Test Pilot Najeeb Halaby endeared himself to private flyers by hopping all over the nation for airport talkfests about their problems. His yen to be where the action is led him to fly to the scene of nearly every commercial air crash. One day he learned that sky divers might endanger air traffic. Characteristically, Halaby parachuted himself, pronounced diving great sport-then called for restrictions...
...late husband was a real swinger. He left her his private flat designed for orgies, complete with floor mirrors, and an elaborate camera setup for making movies of all the fun. Copy of Krafft-Ebing in hand, the wide-eyed widow goes through all the paces, developing a real yen for the "Aristotelian perversion." Only a strong, sober and steadfast physician (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is able to set her straight. But-surprise-he digs Aristotle too. That isn't much of a punch line, but then, The Libertine isn't much of a joke. This slick little...
...However, as one puts it: "Getting Velasco interested in the economy is like getting a Buddhist monk interested in water-skiing." Conversations on the problem-Peru refuses to term them negotiations-resume shortly in Washington. Before long, the Administration firmly hopes, the monk will develop a yen to waterski...
...drew designs from the book of I Ching on the palm of his hand. But could that be a Yank accent? It was indeed. John Steinbeck Jr., 22, son of the late novelist, has dropped out into a dingy Saigon flat in order to follow his yen for Zen. His teacher: Nguyen Thanh Nam, a mystic generally known as the "Coconut Monk," after his habit of meditating perched atop a palm tree in the middle of an island in the Mekong River. Young Steinbeck and his guru have pursued the cause of peace by presenting U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker with...