Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year, hardly anybody outside of Toronto gave the Leafs much chance to make even the playoffs. Coach George ("Punch") Imlach's team was the oldest in the league, held together with stitches, tape and pride. Captain George Armstrong was 36 and quite possibly in his last season; Forward Red Kelly was 39; Defenseman Allan Stanley, 41. Goalie Johnny Bower admitted to 42. And behind him in the nets was Terry Sawchuk, 37, bothered by a chronically bad back and talking about retirement after an illustrious 20-year career that won him four Vezina trophies as hockey...
...Poche, Paris' first computerized grocery store, which in the space-starved city sells 1,700 articles in its 240-sq.-ft. display area. A customer is given a plastic envelope and directed to the shelf space, which bears one sample of each product, plus a pile of punch cards. As he shops, he selects white cards for spices, blue for canned goods, red for dairy products, and so on. Finally he gives the cards to an operator who feeds them to a computer; in seconds the machine spews out a list of the items, prices and a total. Minutes...
...Viet Nam to Hitler's in Europe, Wallace might even improve on that performance. But he has failed to win the expected backing of Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox. Moreover, Wallace's favorite pitches-for states' rights and against integration-may lose some of their punch when voters begin to realize that Alabama gets 75% of its welfare budget from the evil Government in Washington, that 300 Negroes are attending the University of Alabama now that George is no longer standing in the doorway, and that even his old high school in Clio has ten Negro...
Senior attackman Keith Hutchison displayed some excellent one-on-one moves, scoring two goals and assisting on another. He and midfielders Marty Cain and Tom Engel supplied the offensive punch, while defensemen Dave Davis and Mike Ananis joined with goalie Bob Norton to keep M.I.T. from mounting any real threat...
...pressure off harried FAA controllers, they themselves have found that alpha numerics poses a few problems of its own. To feed information about a flight into the radarscope and attach that information to the appropriate blip, for example, the controller must turn away from the screen to punch buttons on a computer input box, leaving his flights unattended for several vital seconds. In addition, as the alphanumeric data blocks move with their appropriate blips across the screen, they occasionally merge with data blocks from other flights, making both sets of data illegible. During heavy traffic, when the screen is crowded...