Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plastic rods (at $1 a pair) to miraculous electronic black boxes (price: $65) that purportedly "discharge toxic vibrations from your mind, emotions and etheric body." Explains Raymond Willey, the society's secretary and a retired General Electric engineer: "Dowsing for water is only the bottom rung of the ladder. Now these powers are used for everything from determining what foods to eat to finding lost objects and people...
...Belluno, he began his pastoral ladder climbing, first to vicar general of that diocese, then, in 1958, to Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, another local diocese subject to Venice. When two local priests there were accused of piling up heavy debts and overdrawing their checking accounts, Luciani summoned his 400 priests for a stern sermon. The church, he reminded them, was to be identified with the poor Then he paid the debts of his free-spending priests out of diocesan funds...
...little else, Belushi easily makes the transition on to film. His character, Bluto, is the frat's resident gross-out and chief hell-raiser. He saves his best leers for the appropriate times: stuffing his fat face prior to a cafeteria food fight, or precariously balanced on a ladder peering into a room of half-naked sorority girls...
...lacocca thought he had a better idea. An eager young sales manager in the 1950s, he figured he would pep up a dull convention of 1,100 Ford salesmen by proving in a live demonstration that if he dropped an egg from a 10-ft-high ladder onto Ford's new crash-padded dashboard, the egg would not break. He was wrong. Until last week, that was one of the very few times that lacocca came close to having egg on his face. After 32 years with Ford, the plain-spoken son of an Italian immigrant was a Horatio...
...noon one day last week, 10,000 bees droned into Montpelier and settled under the eaves near the Governor's office. "It's probably just a delegation to thank Governor Snelling," joked Beekeeper Emile ("Beaver") Couillard, 65, as he climbed a ladder 50 ft. to reach the gathering insects. Couillard, who likes bees as much as any other industrious Vermonter, took the swarm home to his hives, where he expects them to produce about $150 worth of honey this year-enough to take the sting...