Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christian church, have the power to turn them on. "We're not going to get in Wrigley Field and 'put one over the plate for Jesus baby,' " says a Georgia coed. Even union members have little sense of militancy. Having little fear that they will ever lack material comforts for their own part, the young tend to dismiss as superficial and irrelevant their elders' success-oriented lives. "You waited," sniffs a young Californian. "We won't." Nonetheless, today's youth appears more deeply committed to the fundamental Western ethos-decency, tolerance, brotherhood-than
Society could hardly function without its charity balls; politicians live off $100-a-plate fund-raising dinners; and in Harlem, rent parties-a tradition that became famous during the Depression-still go on. But the latest thing is a project party thrown for the benefit and profit of no one less dear than oneself or one's friends...
...Continent, be capable of producing a quarter of Britain's steel needs. The merger was prompted by the demand for pipe created by newly found North Sea gas. Short of pipe capacity, Stewarts and Lloyds and South Durham plan to use Dorman Long's new plate plant at Lackenby as a source of supply. Since that is just the kind of resource pooling that the nationalization-bent government has been demanding of the steel industry, the merger won a quick official blessing...
...capital with a death ray and then take over the world. At first, Matt seems to have met his match. The vil lain has at him with a flamethrowing cigarette lighter, a high-explosive lavaliere, and a jolly pink giant of a bodyguard (Tom Reese) with a shiny steel plate in the top of his skull that looks like a chromium yarmulke. But Matt strikes back with a delayed-action automatic, a bugged harmonica and a rocket-launching cigarette...
...complicated story of Spain's long journey from obscurity (TIME, Jan. 21). The somber Iberian chord is struck again and again-in El Greco's haunted saints and cities, Goya's grim disasters of war, processions of penitents flogging themselves and one another. Appropriately, the final plate is Picasso's brush drawing of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza...