Word: chromed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bright Work is the phrase for chrome, which got to be a nasty word in the industry a few years ago. It will dress up the '63 Ford and Mercury models, which are otherwise little changed. Ford is going back to the dictum that "chrome is everybody's favorite color." The General Motors Chevies will continue to go light on bright work...
...Angeles Physician Nathan Ostich, 52, roared down the twelve-mile straightaway in his jet-powered Flying Caduceus racing car for an assault on the world's land speed record (394.2 m.p.h.). He was up to 331 m.p.h. at the three-mile mark when the sleek red-and-chrome car suddenly veered off course. Ostich popped the eight-foot parachute brake; the Flying Caduceus skidded wildly for nearly two miles, snapped off a wheel, hopped briefly into the air and shuddered to a halt. Unhurt, Ostich surveyed the wreckage and growled: "Was I safe at first? That was a long...
...toilets stuffed up, but the tables brushed immaculately, like green jewels lying in the mud." The Brunswick Corp. of Chicago, largest commercial U.S. billiard equipment manufacturer, is determined to change all that, has produced some innovations aimed straight at Mom; e.g., tables have been contoured along Detroit lines with chrome doodads and two-tone coachwork. But the feature that will bring the loudest howls from Gleason and other reactionary cue sticklers is the new look of the table-topping: it now comes in blue, beige, tangerine and gold. Green? You could order it, too, if you want to be quaint...
...drastically, even a little bit of 'ye olde,' or, as for example is happening on the West Coast, the in dulgence in 'Japanesery.' This may even be tolerable, although derivative, eclectic, or full of gimcracks, when the alternatives are considered ... the chrome and glass, spit and polish, modular articulated, cur tain wall, mechanistic, slick finish, straight and endless directions which are spring ing up around...
...help them become assimilated in the city. A proud people, they are slow to accept relief-but they often hand over their money to credit gougers (poorly educated, many cannot read the large print, much less the fine) for 21-in TV sets and for the chrome and aluminum baubles they have seen on the screen. Most of them live crowded together in slum tenements, but family ties are so strong that relatives from the South are always welcome-even when their visit turns out to last for years. Used to tossing out garbage to be devoured by the ever...