Word: comely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...push to build the SST now emanates from the sheer momentum of technology. After the SST will come the hypersonic transport, with speeds of 5,000 m.p.h., and then suborbital flight. Each step will eventually be taken for the same reason that man climbed Mount Everest: it was there, waiting to be conquered. The still unresolved questions, which Congress must answer, are whether technology must move at a forced-march pace, and whether the boom of supersonic flight in the 1970s is worth the proposed investment of national talent and treasure...
AUTOMAKERS are perennially optimistic, and this year is no exception. Despite signs of ebbing consumer confidence and new models that are relatively unchanged, they predict that sales of U.S. and imported cars in the 1970-model year will come close to the 9,600,000-unit level...
However. John did try to play quarterback at Harvard three times. "I'd come back after a summer and figure I'd try to play quarterback but then I'd be moved back to halfback and would have to learn the position all over again." John explained...
WHEN Robert Downey was working as the "house freak" in a Madison Avenue ad agency a few years ago, an expert was paid $28,000 to come and tell the agency how to sell a particular beer. When the big day arrived, this motivational research guy came before the board and said just three words: "Beer is cock." He then collected his stash and went home-and the agency, after pondering these words of wisdom, came up with a campaign about the beer "with the five-minute head...
...whatever happens with Pound, Downey will stay out of the system and out of Hollywood. (He has had his share of lucrative offers to come to cop-out city in the past few months.) "I like to make movies," he says, " and I don't give a fuck if they're shown anywhere...