Word: em
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that role of salesman that Barry Goldwater has caught popular imagination. At his worst, Goldwater can stumble and stammer through carefully rehearsed texts. Fortunately, he is far more likely to toss away his prepared speech and make the same pitch in gutsy, give-em-hell language that puts the essence of his conservatism in metaphors of the man in the street. He talks neither up nor down to his audiences: he talks to them with obvious sincerity, and in so doing demolishes the stereotype of the conservative as the square in the Celluloid collar. For even his political opponents agree...
...sudden explosion of power? Pitchers moan that the modern ball is more rabbit than horsehide. "They've got it jacked up," insists Los Angeles Angels Reliefer Ryne Duren. Says Cleveland Manager Jimmy Dykes: "When some of these little fellows start popping 'em over the fence, you have to figure they are winding the rubber in the ball tighter. They must even be using elastic glue, too." Baseball manufacturers huffily denied that souped-up balls are the reason. "There has been no change in the construction of the ball in the last quarter-century," says Spalding President Edwin...
After years of denouncing discount houses as the slums of retailing, traditional retailers have begun to see the force of the old dictum: if you can't lick 'em, join 'em. In recent weeks Allied Stores Corp., F. W. Woolworth Co. and S. S. Kresge Co. have all announced plans to set up their own discount operations. Last week the nation's largest discount house countered with the news that it was about to move into the inner sanctum of retailing society. As the newest addition to its chain of 14 stores in four states...
...About 75 years ago," Holmes once said, "I learned that I was not God. And so when the people want to do something I can't find anything in the Constitution expressly forbidding them to do, I say, whether I like it or not, 'Goddamit, let 'em...
...Amazon mosquitoes, I am a Brazilian," he says. "The most important part of my past life was spent on the Amazon, and if I'm lucky the rest of it will be spent here, too. It may sound corny, but these are my people and I love 'em...