Word: bane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CORE to SHAPE-and discovered that if the Greeks didn't have a word for it, they might have: acronyms. All this adds up to a recommended story this week, "The Acronymous Society." The way things are going, there will soon have to be a new society called BANE, for Ban on Acronymic-Named Enterprises...
...Russell. The bearded old bison-bane was a showman, but he was also a notable frontiersman, and this biography does a good job of sorting the facts from the flamdoodle...
...world, is growing still noisier. Ever more numerous jet planes scream overhead, unmuffled trucks roar through city streets, sports cars whine along once placid suburban roads, and missile-age workers are being exposed to the highest and most dangerous noise levels in history. "Noise," says Physicist Knudsen, "is the bane of our existence...
Last week the U.S. Agriculture Department announced a way to end the bane of a dog's life-fleas. By adding certain chemicals to dog food, it found that fleas that bit the dogs died...
...Bane or Boon? Even so, the success of the Formula Junior is worrying many of its original backers. Many of the first cars were slapped together by backyard mechanics, and the races had a pleasantly informal air. Now the winning cars come almost exclusively from more than 20 Italian, English, French and U.S. firms-including renowned racing names like Lotus, Cooper and OSCA-who are building the new cars at peak capacity. Europeans are grooming their Formula Junior cars with Grand Prix care and cash. When New York's grand old Vanderbilt Cup was revived in June after...