Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wide Swath. There was a time not too long ago when President John Kennedy, relaxing with friends in the oval office, would grin innocently and murmur, "Say, whatever became of Lyndon Johnson?" That crack always got a good laugh, for it was a succinct expression of the oblivion into which Johnson had fallen as Vice President...
...prove an immense strain-and, before too long, probably impossible. In 1950 Clement Attlee's Labor government won a majority of six, and Attlee was forced to call another election within 18 months, which Labor lost, starting the long Tory reign. During those 18 months, politicians used to crack: "Suppose there's an important vote in the Commons and a taxi carrying a full load of Labor M.P.s breaks down-out goes the government." As things are now, the taxi need not even carry a full load...
...meter backstroke. Of course, there was nothing anyone could do to stop Australia's ageless Dawn Fraser, 27, from winning the 100-meter freestyle in a record 59.4 sec. But Sharon Stouder, only 15, came within .4 sec. (becoming the first U.S. girl ever to crack 1 min.), then won the 100-meter butterfly and helped her teammates beat the world's record for the 400-meter freestyle relay...
...machine that deals out 22 brands of cigarettes at chest level, thus eliminating stooping. At Wheaton, Md. last week, the U.S. Post Office opened a vending-machine post office in a shopping center, complete with bill changers and stamp, envelope and postcard dispensers. Vending companies are working to crack the softgoods market, which, apart from hosiery and handkerchief machines, has so far resisted broad mechanization...
Married. Harvey Gantt, 21, first Negro to crack South Carolina's white state colleges, after a federal court judge overruled his rejection by Clemson College in January 1963; and Lucinda Brawley, 18, first Negro girl at Clemson; in Hopkins...