Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Name of God." The critics could point to some statistical support for their stand. A Gallup poll completed in mid-July reported last week that for the first time, a majority of Americans (52%) disapprove of President Johnson's handling of the war. The poll showed that 41% believe the U.S. should never have sent troops to Viet Nam in the first place, a percentage that has risen steadily from 24% in August 1965, and that 56% think the allies are stalemated or losing the war. Only 34% said they believe the allies are making progress...
...scenes, all was hysteria, tantrums and frantic last-minute pinning, as couturier after couturier sent out his fall and winter models in one make-or-break fashion show. It was even worse out front, where fashion editors, buyers and quick-sketch artists-most of whose skirts rode up to mid-thigh-wildly scribbled and checked programs in a furious effort to catch the new trends...
...proved an almost impossible task. If any message emerged from the pandemonium, it was that Paris this year doesn't know where fashion is going. Skirts went from six inches above the knee (often worn with thigh-high boots) to mid-shin to ankle length (in some cases worn with frilly pantaloons). For color, black was back-hardly news to raise a cheer round the world. The results, wrote Gloria Emerson in the New York Times, "seem to be dresses for women who can't stop rereading old love letters." In the end, what Paris did have...
Shades of the Gashouse Gang! Not half a dozen of the 1967 Cardinals were yet born when the famous old Redbird team was terrorizing the National League in the mid-1950s - but the family resemblance is unmistakable. There is Lou Brock dashing madly for second and sliding in safely with his 36th sto len base of the season. Curt Flood running full tilt into the centerfield wall to spear a liner that otherwise would have been a sure extra-base hit. Roger Maris crossing up the pulled-back enemy infield with a perfectly placed drag bunt. Orlando Cepeda explaining...
...pinning high hopes on a massive "Watch Now, Pay Later" campaign to be launched in mid-August. Customers will be offered the whole range of models, from the $329.95 set to a $1,600 combination radio-phonograph-TV console, with first payment due 90 days after purchase. Virtually all the other makers are expected to fall into line. Says an RCA executive confidently: "I don't think the public has soured on color...