Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against Inter of Milan, and 10 million Americans tuned into the Telstar broadcast last July of England's victory over Germany for the World Cup. What's more, soccer should be a natural for TV. Baseball fields are all the wrong shape, and the action is too slow; a good pro football quarterback can hide the ball from the TV camera as well as from his opponents. Soccer's rectangular field is perfect for the TV screen, the action is continuous (except, of course, for commercial breaks), the fat, 27-in. ball is easy to follow...
...press played it up as one of the decade's worst disasters. In a slow Easter week on Fleet Street, Britain's newspapers called it another Battle of Britain. A few correspondents even quoted Churchill's immortal words of that dark hour: "We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds." Fight what...
...years', of contraceptive hormones, placed in a slow-release capsule no more than an inch long and the thickness of a kitchen match, is undergoing tests. Implanted in the arm or buttock, the capsule would provide long-lasting protection-or could be removed if pregnancy were desired...
...from February 1966, and from results totaled so far Easter spending this year barely equaled Easter of 1966. Color-television sales are running ahead of last year but at only about 50% of the increase originally expected. With housing starts off sharply, sales of appliances have been predictably slow. Few segments of the economy have been hit as hard as autos. Auto credit is running 55% below the boom year of 1965, and the industry now expects to sell only 3,730,000 cars during the first six months of this year, a drop of 15% from the first half...
After more than a decade of sizzling national growth, Israel's planners decided late in 1965 that it was high time for mitun-which is Hebrew for slow down, and has become the government's slogan for a slew of measures designed to put the brakes on the economy. "The objective," explained Israeli Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, "is simply to step back a pace in order to leap forward." So far, that step back has been bigger than anyone expected...