Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three networks plan extensive coverage of the launch (which NBC will broadcast in live color), frequent reports from the space craft during the 63-orbit, four-day flight, a generous assortment of specials and summaries and even an attempt to have a pool reporter with audio gear aboard one of the recovery helicopters. Elsewhere...
...That was such a fabulous, super, gear article on our music-pop, rock 'n' roll, or whatever you want to call it [May 21]. You just don't know how fabulous it is to live in an age of Beatles, Zombies, Kinks, Hermits, Pretty Things, Dreamers, Rolling Stones, Rockin' Berries, Mersey Monsters, Animals, and all the other people and groups who keep us so happy...
...Post-Op. Houston's normally seething traffic is mercifully light when DeBakey takes off for Methodist Hospital in his Alfa Romeo Sprint (a gift from a grateful Italian patient) at an unpredictable speed and in no particular gear. A man who never walks if he can drive, he gets his exercise by refusing to wait for elevators. He lopes up and down stairs and covers the hospital's labyrinthine corridors at a brisk pace. Professor DeBakey has a handsome, spacious, blue-carpeted office in Baylor's College of Medicine, and rarely uses it. In Methodist Hospital, Surgeon...
...didn't. Instead, rock 'n' roll did. Rejuvenation came in 1960 on the wings of a king-sized twister named Chubby Checker. A onetime Philadelphia chicken plucker, Chubby threw his tubby hips into high gear, and issued an invitation: "C'mon, baby, let's do the twist...
...effort is also being made to satisfy Russia's growing consumer demands both in quantity and quality. Some 400 factories are continuing to experiment with supply and demand and profit guidelines as promulgated by Kharkov Economist Evsei Liberman in an effort to gear the economy away from planning fiat to what buyers want (TIME cover, Feb. 12). Moscow has launched a concerted drive to improve Soviet advertising, even sent the female director of a Moscow store to visit the House of Dior in Paris last month with an eye toward more stylish Russian dress designs. The Kremlin is considering...