Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Detroit potato-chip manufacturer offers flag decals with his jumbo size. In Chicago, the Cubs announcer, Jack Brickhouse, appears in an ad with a star-spangled crone playing Betsy Ross. "I'm keeping busy," says Betsy. "I've got to get ever so many flags over to the American National Bank for their special holiday offer . . . Made of my best colorfast bunting, too." Gas stations pass out antenna flags with each purchase. In Atlanta, the Winn Dixie supermarkets offer flag pins with each $5 purchase?one to a customer. One Detroit department store is pushing a line of red, white...
Rosemary's Baby Comes to Main Street? Not quite. There is plenty of mumbo jumbo and even a climactic cannibal dinner. But Author Rose is playing for more than easy goose bumps and the thrills of chic Satanism. One of the hill-bound families has a son named Alan, and the novel comes to revolve around Gypsy's struggle for Alan's soul...
Atlantic River. All the same, SST defenders have still not offered convincing proposals for dealing with the supersonics' most pressing problem: ear-shattering "sideline" noise generated at takeoff and landing. According to one estimate, the airport roar of a single SST will match that of five jumbo jets. Proposed solutions to sideline noise and sonic boom have thus far been less than encouraging. Some scientists have proposed recycling jet engine exhausts to reduce noise. Others have suggested powerful electrostatic fields to ionize and brush aside air molecules before they can pile up and form boom-producing shock waves...
...vote for continued, if reduced funding. But whether the SST will, in the words of Halaby, "turn the Atlantic into a river and the Pacific into a lake," or turn both into an ecological quagmire, remains to be seen. At about $40 million per plane (v. $23 million per jumbo jet), the U.S. SST has also left many people wondering whether such huge sums should be spent merely to get a relatively small number of travelers across the Atlantic and Pacific a few hours faster. Elwood Quesada, who was the Federal Aviation Agency's first administrator and is currently...
...CRIMSON has joined the fold, without even taking the trouble to erect the false front of sociological mumbo-jumbo as the Times and the Ed Review are always careful...