Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lashed into place and a plugged-in telephone provided close-up communication with the astronauts even before they opened their hatches. TV brought its fans as close as any Wasp crewman when the capsule was finally hoisted on deck, and as his hatch opened, Wally Schirra gave the familiar thumbs-up signal of success. Then, while the band played Anchors Aweigh, the two space travelers walked briskly down the red carpet of welcome between lines of cheering sailors and marines...
Thunderball spreads a treasury of wish-fulfilling fantasy over a nickel's worth of plot. The fantasy is the familiar amalgam of wholesale sex, comic-strip heroism, bogus glamour and James Bond (Sean Connery). The plot concerns Bond's new nemesis, Largo. As No. 2 man of Spectre, Largo masterminds a daring bombnap. He hijacks a Vulcan bomber aloft on a NATO training flight, sinks its atomic payload in the Atlantic near Nassau. Then, for an asking price of ?100 million, he promises not to obliterate Miami or a city of equal size...
Hottest news for the cold season are tailored outfits made from a new super-stretch fabric that feels more comfortable, sticks much closer to the facts. For $65, Jack Winter has whipped up a stretch suit with a thin, double-breasted jacket that would look more familiar in a Courreges workshop than on a practice slope. Sleeker still is a $40 White Stag jump suit with a neckline that plunges well below the fall line, exposing an Irish sweater, a turtleneck jersey-or whatever front a girl wants...
Psychologist George T. Hauty, now at the University of Delaware, designed the FAA project. He was familiar enough with travelers' reports of feeling dreadful for the first few days of a long-awaited European or Hong Kong holiday, but without scientific testing there was no way to know whether the complaints reflected changes in longitude or overindulgence in food and liquor on the plane. What Hauty wanted now was reliable data that might help him predict circadian effects on pilots' performance during long jet flights, on astronauts whose "days" get shortened to less than 100 minutes, and finally...
Boston wears a different cloak at Christmas. Not new, certainly, for if ever New Boston is forgotten, it is now, but different somehow. The Maiden Aunt of American Cities takes out her warm old familiar garment, primps her grey hair, and marches defiantly into the cold. She tramps down from Beacon Hill, shops in one of the gaudy New Boston stores and many of the old smaller ones, then just as quietly slips back through the park, leaving cries of crass commercialism to others. So familiar is her path, so unobtrusive, that you may not have noticed her. Your Christmas...