Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the transistor came of age, there was still room for the venerable vacuum tube in the burgeoning world of electronics. But even though that world is getting bigger, its parts are getting smaller. Transistors, diodes, tunnel diodes and their proliferating cousins are getting more versatile as they shrink. And the vacuum tube is slowly dying out like the ancient dinosaur. At the annual exhibition held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Manhattan's Coliseum last week, there was scarcely a tube anywhere to be seen...
Computers promise to make U.S. business far more efficient, possibly bigger, certainly more powerful. However it affects lower-echelon employment, the computer is sure torequire a new breed of top manager: men who combine the talents of the big-businessman, the public administrator and the scientific researcher. Where will such paragons come from...
About 10% of all mattresses sold last year in the U.S. were supersize- double the total of three years ago-and in 1964 the big-bed business is bigger than ever. Partly, the reason is that Americans in general keep getting bigger...
...times have changed. "The Eve of today needs bigger and better leaves to catch the man of her wishes. She also needs instinct, feminine intelligence, and as sharp and observant an eye as any monkey or cat was ever born with." A considerable bank account helps, but Mrs. Guinness is not bothered by such trivia...
...hottest TV star in Tucson, Ariz., has a Trendex rating of zero. Equity has never heard of him. But to housewives in a 17-story, 411-apartment complex called Tucson House, Joseph J. Gorman is bigger than Judy Garland. Gorman is a grocer whose market, located in the new $6,500,000 building's basement, is hooked into a closed-circuit television system that gives its built-in audience laughs, punditry and laid-yesterday eggs at a moment's notice...