Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to meet the challenge of Ford's Mustang, sold badly last year. This year Barracuda's fastback has been modified with a 'more abrupt slope (the long, tapering fast-backs are on the way out in Detroit), the back of the car has a sportier slab look, and air vents (false) have been added to the hood...
Timely Defense. Not many years ago, such ideas would have been considered heretical by the conservative Southerners who then controlled the A.B.A. But last week the idea of "the law as friend" seemed instead to dominate the 5,250 A.B.A. members meeting at Montreal's slab-sided Queen Elizabeth Hotel. At first, not all members were quite prepared for change. The 275-member house of delegates very nearly denounced a key provision of the Johnson Administration's pending civil rights bill, which would desegregate Southern federal juries by ending the "key man" system of prominent citizens recommending veniremen...
...Endless Summer. To surfboard enthusiasts, a new wave film is an epic celebrating the cool of a bronzed athlete atop a ten-foot slab of polyurethane foam, shooting through a tunnel of sea-green water formed by a breaker's curl. "The ultimate thing in surfing is to be covered up by the wave," says Bruce Brown, a blond, 28-year-old Californian who probably qualifies as the world's foremost exponent of pleasure before business. A Bergman of the boards, Brown makes his pleasures pay, and has pushed his income into a fun-filled six-figure bracket...
...thing." His new $32 million, 800-room Century Plaza Hotel, which opened last week in Los Angeles, is all of that and more. To begin with, there is the hotel's distinctive shape. To eliminate endless vistas down straight corridors, Yamasaki designed the hotel as a curved slab, 400 ft. long. In most new hotels, ballrooms, restaurants and shops are housed aboveground in a massive and ungainly block; Yamasaki placed them beneath notice, underground, along with a 1,000-car garage, so that the gracefully balconied slab rises cleanly from the ground...
...more nails per pound than the smooth-shank variety. And Crucible Steel last week announced that it will build the world's first plant, at Midland, Pa., to make stainless steel in a continuous liquid process from chrome ore in a blast furnace to a slab-casting machine...