Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buenos Aires last week, customs officials were auctioning off a $100 million hoard of contraband-1,500 cars, mountains of nylons, radios and TV sets -confiscated over the last few years. It was only the merest drop in a very deep bucket. By conservative estimate, Argentine smugglers will do a $300 million business this year, while their counterparts in Brazil will gross an even handsomer $400 million. Total sales for all Latin America are well over $1 billion annually...
...appetites of many Americans for the sports car -though they were out of reach for most Americans. Out of this appetite came the inspiration for such American cars as the Thunderbird and the Corvette, whose price still hovers between $4,000 and $5,000, and for the sporty extras-bucket seats, stick shifts, wire wheels-best embodied in General Motors' jazzy Corvair Monza...
...Mustang," Lee Iacocca said at this week's premiere on the World's Fair grounds in New York, "Ford has actually created three cars in one." Aside from the basic $2,368 model (which is not so basic; it comes with bucket seats, padded dash, and leatherlike vinyl upholstery), anyone who wants to turn his Mustang into a little Thunderbird can load it with just about every luxury option Detroit has, from automatic transmission to a big V-8 to air conditioning. Finally, the sports-car purist who wants performance and more horsepower can spend...
...sight: Franny and Zooey and How to Achieve and Maintain Complete Sexual Happiness in Marriage. Two dozen gardenias are delivered to the apartment each week. They float in an urn in the kitchen, a salad bowl in the dining room, a champagne glass in the bathroom, and a wooden bucket beside her bed. "A gardenia is like a free spirit," she says. "Its fragrance cannot be captured. It's like it doesn't want to be tied down and destroyed by all the sterility of the modern times...
...priced from about $2,400. It represents perhaps the ultimate development of the pizazz phenomenon that has gripped Detroit since 1962. Its radically different roof not only offers a sportier look than the Valiant, but the car has as standard equipment many of the optional features, such as bucket seats, that buyers have been clamoring to pay extra money for. Another necessary dividend: the Barracuda's huge window is tinted to prevent its back-seat passengers from frying...