Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could mean that a Soviet nose cone was on its way carrying destruction, and that there were 15 minutes in which to get off the ground and head for preassigned Soviet targets. There would be no time for second thoughts, no room for second-guessing as to whether some button-pusher was running a test. To the SAC alert crews, the klaxon is a cry to arms...
...climate: Canada. Last week in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke,* 1,000 TV-owning families could sit back and see a first-run movie or sports event uninterrupted by commercials. All they had to do was slip $1 in nickels, dimes or quarters into a box and push the button. Among the first shows: The Nun's Story, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The FBI Story...
Principle of the Thing. In Spokane, Wash., on his way to jail for drunkenness, one resourceful man noticed parading pickets of striking city workers, dug a union button out of his pocket, cried: "I can't cross the picket line...
...working newsmen. No smoke hangs blue above the desks; by executive order in the interest of "increased efficiency," smoking is prohibited. To make phone calls, most reporters retire to soundproofed glass booths along the wall; when they want a copy boy, they do not shout, but press a buzzer button. The big room has an almost palpable serenity, helped along by the sight of the old-fashioned dust jackets worn by some of the copyreaders...
...country took it big. Pro-Paar calls and wires poured into NBC headquarters. Mickey Rooney, who had only recently been involved in a liquid feud with Paar (TIME, Dec. 14), offered Jack a job in a Rooney-owned tire factory. A political-button manufacturer put aside his campaign slogans to produce a lapel ornament that read "Come Back Jack." At Bowie race track, an in-and-outer named Randy-paar, after Jack's daughter, got into the spirit of things and paid...