Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whelchel played an outstanding game, a cool young man who passed for 124 yards, ran for 68, and handled the ball flawlessly although UMass plays call for some tricky reverse handoffs. He called plays almost perfectly, twice popping screen passes over the heads of Harvard linemen who had called a blitz. If Harvard meets a better quarterback, they may need to call in the Military Science Department to stop...
GENERAL ELECTRIC sends the audience around the show in a revolving auditorium. Disney-made dummies extol progress (appliances division) in vignettes showing American home life in 20-year intervals from the turn of the century. Somehow the coziness of icebox and coalstove days seems more appealing than the cool splendors of the modern home filled with the latest conveniences...
Pakistan's President Ayub Khan once frankly declared that his country wasn't ready for parliamentary democracy because it requires a "cool and phlegmatic temperament that only people living in cold climates seem to have." Accord ingly, only 80,000 "basic democrats"-out of a total population of 100 million -are allowed to vote for the President and legislature, and Ayub has jailed his most outspoken critics...
...gilt-framed pictures of Civil War officers. Fellows feeling particularly risqué can peep at pictures of Gay Nineties showgirls; those feeling like a change of face can purchase a mustache for 50?. Young people feel a sense of release from the rapt silence that is derigueur at cool-jazz joints. Stag girls like the clubs because the wholesome entertainment reassures them that the boy singing Bye Bye Blackbird across the stein is not likely to turn out to be a mugger (and even if he is, at least he's a happy...
...broken the worry barrier yet. Governments worry about the high cost of developing it, which ranges from $13.5 million per plane for the British-French job to $40 million for a U.S. design that has not yet been settled on. Airframe makers worry about technical problems -from keeping fuel cool to developing new alloys. Among the most worried of all, as it turned out last week, are the world's airlines, which have already ordered 45 Concordes and 91 of the proposed bigger, faster U.S. model...