Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When General Lauris Norstad, retiring from SHAPE, dropped in at Ottawa last winter and allowed that Canada was not living up to its NATO commitments. Pearson, after a thoughtful week off, announced a switch in Liberal policy: since Canada had made a nuclear commitment to NATO and NORAD. it should live up to its obligations, and at a future time re-examine the rights and wrongs of the commitment...
...operation slowly, fuzzily emerged. The company's "sample universe" is peopled with two species of audience: Audimeter families and Audilog-Recordimeter families. In some 1,100 U.S. homes (selected by computer), all radios and television sets are monitored continuously by Audimeters-black boxes about the size and shape of a car battery. Each Audimeter comes equipped with eight weeks' worth of film, which records the family's listening and viewing activity. When a spool of film is replaced (either weekly or every other week, according to Nielsen's need for speed), the Audimeter rewards its keeper...
Typical is the story You and I. The guests at a dinner party are all in some sort of disguise. Or are they spies disguised as guests? Men the shape of heavyweight boxers are disguised as women. Who is who? Nobody will ever know. A chance remark about the difficulty of getting duck causes panic and consternation, since one of the guests, who has ears like headphones and eyes like a sniper's, is clearly the representative of the unmentionable absent reality-Big Brother. Somebody offers an explanation. Food distribution in the cities should not be underestimated. "Duck, chicken...
...life women at a furious rate. Most popular in straw, they come in every possible fabric from linen to leopard, can be made to look entirely new by a switch in ribbon color or the substitution of feather for flower. They are firm enough to hold their own high shape, are better even than the bouffant hairdo; nothing, neither wind nor compact car, is likely to flatten them or leave them bedraggled...
...year, Matson has bought labor peace at least through mid-1964. President Powell is wary of pushing the unions too hard with automation plans, and he does not believe in bragging too much about the future. Says he: "We've had our hands full just getting into the shape where we have any future...