Word: delta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Countermeasures. Rushing to the blacks' support, white members of Students for a Democratic Society set up a picket line outside the building. University officials tried to negotiate with the blacks, but were firmly turned away. Determined to recapture "The Straight," 20 whites, most of them from Delta Upsilon fraternity, whose membership is entirely Caucasian, smashed through a window and scuffled with the blacks. They were beaten back...
Varieties of Psychedelic Experience, by R. E. L. Masters and Jean Houston (Delta paperback by Dell, 326 pp.). This over-long account of experiments with LSD rests on the dubious premise that trips can be translated into verbal terms. The results are sometimes ludicrous. Does it help us to know that 88.01 per cent of subjects describe their experience as "religious...
...years ago, the U.S. made the decision to build an SST. Later, Boeing, the contract winner, encountered major design problems: its radical swing-wing concept was an economic disaster. The engineers went back to their drawing boards and last fall came up with another SST, this time a fixed delta-wing titanium plane capable of cruising at a speed of 1,800 m.p.h. while carrying more than 250 passengers 4,000 miles...
Finally, in May 1967, Henry Ford and Lee lacocca determined to build a new car, code-named Delta. It was to be inexpensive enough to appeal to three-car families and retired people, yet sufficiently stylish to attract young people on their first or second cars. Ford is attempting to attract young buyers by offering the Maverick in colors that were created at a group brainstorming session, presumably held in a cornfield. The colors include Freudian Gilt, Original Cinnamon, Thanks Vermilion and Hulla-Blue. The standard gag among the executives is that the company will entertain any name except "Statutory...
...might be wary of all these "Allstars" in one group. But they work together beautifully, all springing from the same great tradition of Delta blues. And when Johnny Shines went into his "tribute to a friend, the late Robert Johnson," playing "standing' at the Crossroads" with his mellow slide guitar, and a slight tremble in his voice, the rest of the band came right together. And that was the blues--no longer a legend; very much alive...