Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flowing Westward. Not since U.S. Steel decided in 1905 to put a plant on the hunk of Lake Michigan sand that is now Gary, Ind., has a private project had such opportunity to change an entire area. The mill will start off employing 2,500 people in a plant for finishing rolled steel shipped from the East. Jones & Laughlin hopes that the plant will eventually be completely integrated from blast furnaces on up, expects it to generate satellite manufacturing industries to use its steel. Says Jones & Laughlin Chairman Charles M. Beeghly: "We are talking about the largest single development...
...Libby of U.C.L.A., offer the most ingenious theory so far. After disposing of previous guesses (If it was a meteor, where is the crater? If it was a comet, why was it not seen approaching?), Libby & Co. suggest that what caused the big bang may well have been a hunk of antimatter that must have wandered into the solar system from some distant galaxy...
People who think the Far Right took the ten count last November should visit California's 27th Congressional District. This grotesquely shaped hunk of Los Angeles County was designed, by a Democratic legislature, to get rid of a Republican Congressman who was a member of the John Birch Society. The voters cooperated in 1962. But in 1964, the Democratic Congressman retired, and the Republican candidate--who stands perhaps 1 to the left of Birch--won. The 27th was one of four Congressional Districts outside the South to go Democratic in 1962 and Republican in 1964. And it is no coincidence...
...Farm. Last month two wandering prospectors stumbled on a 13-lb. hunk of white crystal on a 1,900-acre farm near Cristalina and hurried into town with the news. The reaction resembled The Gold Rush. The mayor, notary public, pharmacist and priest raced to the farm with the rest of the citizens hot on their heels. Laborers in nearby Brasilia threw aside their hods and streamed down the highway; so did lawyers, senators, civil servants, housewives and doctors...
...note to the podium telling him it was time to stop. In Pittsburgh, people in the back rows began sneaking out halfway through his address. In Milwaukee, Lyndon missed his lunch, made up for it by stopping at William Balsmider's grocery and asking for "a little hunk of baloney" and half a dozen peppermint sticks. He had to borrow $1 from a Secret Service agent...