Word: doughnut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tropical Atlantic off the northeast coast of South America lay a doughnut-shaped cloud mass of warm air, gradually rising and circling in counterclockwise motion as a drop in atmospheric pressure sucked layers of cooler air in beneath it. The weather men named the mass Flora-sixth hurricane of the 1963 season-and commenced the routine precautions that in recent years have taken some of the bite out of the fierce storms: hurricane-hunter planes to check course, speed, wind velocity, intensity of the rain; detailed advisories and instructions to everyone in the storm's path...
...Henry Moore sculpture at the distinguished Felix Landau Gallery to paintings by Pop Artist Billy Al Bengston at the Ferus Gallery. Billy Al does canvases with titles like Rock, Troy, Tyrone, Sterling. One called Fabian consists of large master-sergeant stripes against a background of orange and blue-grey doughnut shapes. It is social comment, Billy Al explains: everyone wants to be topkick. At the Heritage Gallery, a lumpy figurative painting by Rod Briggs lets out wails every time a viewer's shadow falls upon its built-in electric...
...little money and a lot of time, can savor the big-brotherly benefits of a widely known name, cooperative advertising, "protected" territories and a stream of practical booklets that program the steps to success. To break into business, franchisees put up as little as $2,000 for a doughnut shop to as much as $1,300,000 for a Howard Johnson's motel. Once started, fewer than 10% of them fail...
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Boston's Red Sox probably won't be the AL champion, but they won't be the League doughnut either. A lot depends, of course, on the results of the trades the Sox made over the winter. Most of the newcomers are from the National League, though, and National players often tend to benefit from the switch...