Word: bugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congratulations and all that jazz to TIME on a real gasser of a story on that chick-loving weirdo I dig, that bug, Mort Sahl. "Wild...
Founder of the institute is slim, earnest Schoolteacher Evelyn Nielsen Wood, 51, who first caught the fast-reading bug 15 years ago when she handed a master's-degree term paper to her speech professor at the University of Utah. He flipped the 80 pages once-and marked the paper without missing a detail. His untrained speed: 6,000 w.p.m. Teacher Wood found 50 other such prodigies, including housewives and a sheepherder. All had common characteristics: they read whole paragraphs at a time, remembered everything. Concluded Teacher Wood: "Speed is not most important, but only through speed...
Talking jumpily and a little like a phonograph record running too fast, he sprays his monologues with far-out terms such as chick, drag, gasser, cool it, bug, dig, weirdo and all that jazz. He also mixes in a never-ending supply of phrases parodying academic jargon ("We must learn to differentiate between generic and relative terms"). Between jokes, he draws on a fat little glossary of verbal rialtos that counterpoint the laughter, indicate his attitude to the material. "Wild, huh?" he will say, standing in the ruins of his most recent target...
...promote its slogan "Where there's life . . . there's Bud," the Anheuser-Busch brewery has spent $40 million. Last week it filed suit against the Chemical Corp. of America, which makes a floor wax that kills bugs too. Its complaint: the chemical company's new slogan-"Where there's life, there's bugs"-tended to "disparage" Budweiser. Chemical Corp. blandly rejoined that its inspiration was really 18th century English Poet John Gay, who wrote: "While there is life there's hope, he cried." The court, in a temporary injunction, told Chemical Corp. to apply...
Dalkowski's father, a vocational buffer in an electric-tool plant in New Britain, Conn, and an avocational baseball buff, trained Steve for the outfield. But the boy tried pitching in high school, quickly caught the strike-out bug. Says Dalkowski: "I didn't win, but when I got the ball over the plate, it was fun to watch them swing." Signed by the Baltimore Orioles after graduation in 1957, Steve joined a rookie farm club in Kingsport, Tenn. "I remember my record," he recalls, "because it was so even: 121 strike-outs and 129 walks...