Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completed. The primary reason for remaining in orbit for another five days was to test the reliability of the Apollo systems. So the astronauts settled back for one of the most relaxed periods of any manned space flight to date, taking rest periods of ten hours or more. "The big events of today," cracked a NASA official on Sunday, "are the sleep cycle and the wake-up period." On Monday, when the crew failed to call Houston at the scheduled hour, flight controllers simply allowed them to sleep on for two more hours...
...student plays while studying architecture in Milan. At 24 he worked up a one-man act reciting monologues. His first nationwide success was a three-act tragi-comedy that examined the making of a hero, coming to the conclusion that the hero is only a creation of the "big boss," who used him to keep the workers distracted while the boss exploited them. His greatest hit, written in 1967, is set in a circus in the U.S., where the clowns die and go to an American heaven to find a paradise packed with consumer goods...
Once again, it was high noon in Athens. Once again, the big shoot-up paired off two old adversaries, Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos. For the past dozen years, they have clashed over business deals with almost the same fervor that they seek to outdo each other in their personal lives. The spoils have been about equally divided. Niarchos, whose estimated wealth is just under $500 million, won the license to run the country's first oil refinery and vast shipyards. Onassis, who is worth just over $500 million, got the national airline concession...
...happened along a decade or two earlier, he would have been lucky if he had bus fare to the stadium. Mel Hein recalls the days when, as an all-pro center for the New York Giants, he was knocking down all of $150 for a game. "1938 was my big year. I got $150 for endorsing Mayflower Doughnuts. When I won the Most Valuable Player award, some pipe company sent me a set of pipes. Free...
...really want to do," says Agent Arnold Pinkney, "is take these athletes and teach them how to spin their first big buck." When spun by Jim Hand Enterprises, the variations are seemingly endless. Hand's boys, traveling in his fleet of new Jaguars and Cadillacs, are constantly on the move. Deacon Jones is taking dancing lessons in preparation for his Las Vegas nightclub act. There are the Lance Alworth dry-cleaning shops. The Donny Anderson boys' camp. The Rick Barry syndicated sports column. And, named according to regional fan interest, the Lance Alworth, Donny Anderson and Rick Barry...