Word: matic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among other things, the Beatles in The Beatles seem to be signaling the listener that they have pulled back from the electronic adventurousness and the matic unity of Sgt. Pepper. Their new album is much more relaxed and modest. Well and good; there is no reason why Sgt. Pepper should be a shackling precedent for whatever follows. But when the foursome meander from style to style without any apparent guiding objective or sense of urgency, they seem to be substituting synthetics for synthesis. Even their renewed interest in the song styles of the English music hall and rhythm and blues...
...Chicken Delight restaurants have been opened by a bank teller, a beautician and a schoolteacher. Such entrepreneurs put up $6,000 on the average, but the price can vary widely. For $2,500, a would-be businessman can now open a shop selling foot-long meatballs at 90?. Car-matic auto-washing stations go for $14,800, while Lapin's pancake restaurants require a $40,000 investment...
VOTING RIGHTS. Provides for auto matic federal intervention in areas where less than 50% of the voting-age population is registered. In these cases, literacy tests would be suspended and federal registrars employed. A joint conference has agreed on a compromise of differing House and Senate versions, and final passage is imminent...
...volume, high-profit luxury car has proved to be an ideal vehicle for market testing Detroit's expensive new accessories and styling ideas. Hydra-Matic, the first successful automatic transmission, started out on the Cadillac; so did the first auto tail fins, which spread through the industry before receding. Cadillac's turning lights, which provide side illumination during a turn, have been adopted by other G.M. divisions, will appear on the 1966 models of some competitors. The Lincoln Continental's handsome slab sides, introduced on the 1961 model, set a styling trend that still dominates Detroit; next...
...best of times, Parisians did not know it. Girls in lace frills climbed excitedly into the first asth matic automobiles. Bearded, droopy-eyed Edward VII took his cigar and his carnation to the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergere. Donning top hats, venturesome souls climbed nonchalantly into a balloon and blithely sipped champagne, up and up, to shiver in their stiff collars at the dizzy height...