Word: chips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Store owners had no place in their cash registers for the $2 bills when they were introduced in 1976, and some found it too easy to mistake them for $20 bills. The heavy, poker chip-sized Eisenhower dollars proved clumsy to carry around after they appeared in 1971, and are now pretty much relegated to the slot machines in Las Vegas and Atlantic City...
Chicken flying is of a piece with turtle derbies, crab races, frog jumps, armadillo rallies and possibly even buffalo chip tosses. There is no entry fee. Owners may enter as many birds as they please. Contestants are divided among four categories according to weight, and prizes of $25, $10 and $5 are awarded for the longest flights in each class, along with bright blue, red and yellow ribbons. Any chicken flying farther than the "world's record" -297 ft. 2 in., set in 1977 by a Japanese blacktail bantam named Kung Flewk -receives a cash prize of $500. What...
Ahmed serves Moroccan food to duelling ayatollahs, but less wealthy types frequent the Hungry Persian on Eliot St.-inexpensive, good Middle Eastern food. Sophia Loren stuffs herself with Formaggio's thick and creamy sandwiches in the Garage, (boursin and roast beef on homemade bread and their chocolate chip cookies are perennial favorites) while Suzanne Somers gets her cheesecake from Rowinsky's on Mt.Auburn...
...Muskogee potato chip maker who went broke in the Depression, Jones, 40, grew up in the city's segregated black ghetto because it was the only place where his family could afford to buy a home. Armed with a taste for politics and a sense of social justice, he got a night-school law degree from Georgetown University, gravitated to Lyndon Johnson's 1964 campaign, and wound up as the President's appointments secretary, one of the handful of White House staffers closest to L.B.J. Of that period he now says, "We created a lot of cynicism...
...secretive about the way Speak & Spell works that competitors are buying the toy just to smash it and recover the chip. The Texas company has managed to put a fairly large vocabulary onto a computer chip at low cost. With that, synthetic speech becomes possible in many consumer products. Washing machines could gurgle when the suds get too high, and the refrigerator could snarl at the midnight raider. But what, the best brains in Detroit are wondering, will happen when a driver's eight-track quadraphonic recording of Disco Queen Donna Summer is interrupted by a disembodied voice warning...