Word: crushers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself, stealing the ball, caroming pinpoint passes off the top of his head, foot-dribbling around Botafogo defenders as if they were rooted in concrete. Santos ran up a quick three-goal lead. Then, while delirious fans shouted "Pay-lay! Pay-lay!". Pelé personally administered the crusher : he hammered in two more goals to make the final score...
Last week came a real crusher in the humiliating House defeat of the Administration's farm program (see following story). In the hope that a farm-bill victory would set off a bandwagon movement for the rest of the Kennedy program, the Administration pulled out all the stops. "If we can pass the farm bill" said House Majority Leader Carl Albert,"it vill be downhill the rest of the session." But after the House vote, everything seemed to be slanting up. The Administration's plan for medical care for the aged was stalled in the House Ways...
...sketches, 5) an automatic merchandiser that dispenses clothing, makes change from dollar bills, 6) an electronic system linking an airline's ticket offices throughout the U.S., 7) a cart for big-chef barbecues, 8; a plastic balloon building, 9) a 50-ton log stacker, 10) a tree crusher, 11) a transistor radio as small as a sugar cube, 12) a language-translating machine, 13) an underwater torpedo retriever, 14) a movable island crane, 15 ) a high-speed ditch digger, 16) a "pickle picker," 17) a hay pelletizer that makes cookies for cows, 18) a home sound-movie camera...
What kept standards high? Answers Marson: the detailed high-school curriculum prescribed by the powerful College Entrance Examination Board of the time, and the fact that Harvard accepted boys only for academic excellence. But around 1935, Harvard added nonacademic admission criteria: photographs, social poise, athletic prowess. "The real crusher" came in the 1940s when Harvard and other College Board members abolished the old essay examinations (in all subjects) and "substituted the present objective and objectionable tests of today...