Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unaccountably outsold by Rival Joe DiMaggio dolls in Harlem stores. Now, with camp idol Batman beginning to fade, Licensing is going back to the locker room for more durable names. Not long ago, the company got French Diver Jacques Cousteau to give his name to a line of underwater gear. As for tennis and the USLTA, says Stone, they "will outlive...
When the need for reruns runs out, Ampex may be busier than ever. At the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Chicago last week, Ampex engineers showed off new gear that promises to greatly expand the versatility of television. Most impressive of the items is a $65,000 combination camera and videotape recorder (VTR) that will enable a single roving newsman to record news events on tape for immediate broadcast. The 50-lb., battery-powered pack can tape up to 20 minutes of black-and-white action on a single reel, does away with the gear-laden truck and crew...
...pragmatic British tapped him to revive a Wolfsburg auto factory which had been so badly bombed that, Nordhoff was later to recall, it "didn't even smell good enough for the Russians." That plant had once built Volkswagens, and Nordhoff's success in getting it back into gear has become a legend (TIME cover, Feb. 15, 1954). By last week, when he announced that he would retire as board chairman, Wolfsburg had become horns base for West Germany's biggest industry. Volkswagen ranks fourth behind only the U.S. Big Three among the world's automakers...
...South Vietnamese officials met on Nimitz Hill, the U.S. naval headquarters overlooking the Philippine Sea. Also in clear view from the spacious verandas on the Hill was a tangible reminder of the larger stakes-and risks-in the Viet Nam war: the Soviet trawler Gidrofon, laden with electronic snooping gear, lying just beyond the three-mile limit in order to monitor U.S. B-52 flights to Viet Nam and track the six Polaris subs based at Guam...
...followed its trajectory back into the atmosphere, the craft moved its control flaps, turned, and detoured 500 miles before returning to its original course and splashing down in the ocean near Kwajalein Island. Though the SV-5D sank, and was lost when heavy seas ripped away its flotation gear, its otherwise successful flight brought closer the day when man can first steer it through space...