Word: spicing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Creation. This chitchat is followed by a second act in the form of a dialogue on the nature and purpose of kingship between Charles and his wife. The philosophy is all very interesting, but it would have been nicer if Shaw had included at least a plot to spice things...
Easygoing street theater and speeches marked demonstrations in other cities. More than a thousand women and men sympathizers attended a noon-hour rally in Indianapolis, where they watched guerrilla theater. In Detroit, guerrilla actresses played out "a woman's place": she enters the world as "sugar and spice," looks forward to being "Daddy's little girl," then becomes a newlywed who "whistles while she works" and ends up as an "everyday housewife" whose world is circumscribed by "ring around the collar" and who dreams only of winning daytime television glory as "Queen...
Died. Charles P. McCormick, 74, spice king whose McCormick & Co. dominates the U.S. market; of a heart attack; in Baltimore. Taking over his uncle's firm in 1932, McCormick expanded the business until now it is a $109 million operation; a major innovation was his "multiple management" system, under which various parts of the firm (sales, production, etc.) each elect a board to work with the top bosses...
When Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike entered politics in 1960, she campaigned on the reputation of her late husband -a former Prime Minister of Ceylon who had been assassinated five months earlier-and all but inundated the lovely, spice-scented island with her tears. A plump, matronly woman who had served contentedly as the dutiful wife of a strong-willed man and the mother of three children, she was reluctant to run. Finally she announced: "It is a duty I owe to my late husband...
...harvest of news each week, much of what TIME'S editors deal with lies quite properly in the realm of the expected: a long-awaited event to be reported and analyzed, a continuing question to be updated and more thoroughly understood. Yet the spice of journalism-for both editors and readers-is the unusual: a fascinating personage, a surprising relationship, a shocking conflict, an unexpected and intriguing proposition. A sampling from this week's issue...