Word: better
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imposing, athletic black man wearing a red, white and blue track suit and white sneakers looked like a touring pro basketball star, but the crowds knew better. Instantly recognizing their visitor as the Rev. Jesse Jackson, black Africans reached out to touch the American civil leader as he made his way among the shacks and shanties that are home to more than 1 million people in the black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. Earlier, Jackson had addressed a group of residents at Crossroads, a famed squatter community on the outskirts of Cape Town. He was greeted there by a banner...
Putting himself down is one of George's better lies. He almost makes you believe that when he and Gracie worked together, his chief job was to see which way the wind was blowing. "I had to make sure the smoke from my cigar didn't go in her direction. That's really all I had to worry about because I knew she was good...
...Wonder Fuel that can not only drive cars, heat homes and produce electricity but may also be brewed out of kitchen garbage? All this is possible with Ch 2 H 5 OH, which is better known as grain alcohol or ethanol, the stuff that provides the kick in gin and whisky. Ethanol was used decades ago to power early automobiles, only to fade when plentiful supplies of cheaper gasoline became available. Now that gas is getting scarce and costly, the fuel is coming back...
...sport's growth has been the improved quality of the skates themselves. Equipped with the quiet and smooth-rolling polyurethane wheels and precision ball bearings that were developed for skateboards, the new skates have better traction and more maneuverability than the noisy metal strap-on models that kids used to rattle around on. Says Harry Ball, 61, president and owner of the California-based Sure-Grip Skate Manufacturing Co., which this year will double its 1978 sales of over $5 million: "The new skate is no longer a toy but a piece of athletic equipment...
...while in Wisconsin. But for their younger brothers and sisters, the grounding for education may be the only means of breaking the cycle of wandering and deprivation. Says Migrant Maria Covarabuis, a mother of five: "I want for my children to go to school and college and have a better future." In Palmyra, one teacher wears a T shirt that symbolizes the program, with a picture of a rising sun behind a green field. Underneath is written: MIGRANT EDUCATION, HARVEST OF HOPE...