Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buying a new car every four years, now buys one every three years-often the family's second or third car. Last year 5,000,000 Americans bought miniature or portable TV sets, mostly to supplement the big sets that they already had. It was also a big breakthrough year for the color TV industry, which added $500 million to the gross national product by marketing 1,400,000 sets, almost twice as many as the year before. Consumers responded with abandon to labor-saving devices: they bought 2,000,000 frostless refrigerators, 1,600,000 electric carving knives...
...more reforms of outdated rules (clerical celibacy, for example), institutions (the Index of Forbidden Books) and teachings (birth control). The renewal at the Vatican has also had a striking impact on the sister churches: it challenges the Reformation faiths to re-examine how reforming they still are. "The ecumenical breakthrough in Catholicism has changed the climate of the times," says Dean Samuel Miller of Harvard's Divinity School...
Mann scored his breakthrough when he discovered that the gentle flute, an upstaged squeak in the company of flashy trumpets and saxophones, could best flex its personality against a background of drums. Mann formed an Afro-Jazz Sextet and embarked in 1959 on a highly successful four-month tour of 17 African countries...
...took to singing while she typed and was suddenly seized by the thought: "How much more interesting it would be to type music than invoices." She bought a secondhand typewriter from a friend and began years of figuring how to reproduce 8,000 chords with 46 keys. Biggest breakthrough was the idea for vertical typing, in which the basket of type and not the paper shifted up and down eight spaces, or an octave-an inspiration that struck her one day while riding up and down in a creaking elevator in her apartment building. She financed her experiments with winnings...
...remarkably creative company has become a darling of Wall Street by poking inquisitively into a bunch of unlikely products that stick, slip or scratch. Founded in 1902 to mine corundum for use in abrasive wheels, 3M struggled into the manufacture of sandpaper and then into masking tape. Its big breakthrough was the familiar Scotch Tape, which 3M invented originally as industrial masking tape. Scotch Tape still accounts for 17% of the company's sales, has led to 400 other varieties of tape, the latest of which, introduced to the public in September, is a nonirritating bandage that comes...