Word: ross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offers a" 32-day round-the-world tour for 60 people flying in a chartered Convair 990 with stops in Copenhagen, Malagasy. New Guinea and other lands. The fare is $9,960. Lindblad Travel. Inc., which spec;alizes in the exotic, has organized tours to Easter Island and the Ross Sea area of the Antarctic. In the works now is a cruise to the Seychelles, "the forgotten islands" in the Indian Ocean. Some customers are canceling out of such tours, though, because they cannot afford to spend several thousand dollars in a recession...
...Detroit potato-chip manufacturer offers flag decals with his jumbo size. In Chicago, the Cubs announcer, Jack Brickhouse, appears in an ad with a star-spangled crone playing Betsy Ross. "I'm keeping busy," says Betsy. "I've got to get ever so many flags over to the American National Bank for their special holiday offer . . . Made of my best colorfast bunting, too." Gas stations pass out antenna flags with each purchase. In Atlanta, the Winn Dixie supermarkets offer flag pins with each $5 purchase?one to a customer. One Detroit department store is pushing a line of red, white...
...green wrist cult has developed its own rules. The bracelet must be closely fitted, for instance, and its ends must not come into contact with each other. Once clamped on, it must not be removed-not even for bathing. "One must never clean them off," says Movie Director Herbert Ross. "They clean themselves off, although it is O.K. to wash the green and black off your wrist." After about two years, the makers wisely claim, the bracelets lose their power and must be replaced-a sort of magical planned obsolescence...
...have to agree with Professor K. Ross Toole, of the University of Montana, who wrote: "By virtue of what right, by what accomplishment, should thousands of teenagers, wet behind the ears and utterly without the benefit of having lived long enough to have either judgment or wisdom, become the sages of our time...
Budding Dynasty. Orr runneth over with other cups. He won the Ross trophy with a record (for a defenseman) 33 goals and a record (for anybody) 87 assists and 120 points during the season, the Hart trophy as the N.H.L.'s most valuable player, the Norris trophy as the league's best defenseman, and the Smythe trophy as the most valuable player in the playoffs. Says Bruins Coach Harry Sinden: "Orr may be the greatest athlete who ever lived...