Word: nosedive
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In Atlanta, perhaps the most moderate of the South's big cities, some of the worst flare-ups took place. One occurred when three Negro ministerial students sought to test a fried-chicken joint owned by Lester Maddox, an unsuccessful Georgia office seeker and a loud racist. Maddox was...
The needle-nosed F-104G Super Starfighter boomed over the measured ten-mile course at 37,000 ft. above California's Edwards Air Force Base. Officials checked its speed with radar, and when blonde Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, 57, landed, she had another feather to put in her pretty cap...
But for all the importance and respect his position brings, Fred Kappel, at 62, remains essentially a small-town boy who retains the earthy and often unsophisticated ways of the heartland. He runs the most modern of corporations from an old-fashioned office in a lower Manhattan building whose Doric...
See-As-You-Talk. Today, the company that thrives on talk is creating quite a bit of talk about itself-most of it by being long-nosed. In search of new and better ways to transmit words
Kappel and his long-nosed engineers never cease devising comely new gadgets to hook onto this computer to bring more profit to A.T.&T. and to add luster and convenience to what they call "p.o.t."-plain old telephone service. They have successfully sold the idea of color for telephones: 21...