Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie is anything like the cast, it ought to be a winner. With Raquel Welch, Mae West and John Huston already in the fold, 20th Century-Fox has just signed smart-set chronicler and film critic Rex Reed for a "starring role" in Myra Breckinridge. Reed wants everyone to know that he is not -repeat not-playing gay young Myron Breckinridge, who goes under the knife to emerge as Raquel Welch. His part now calls for a young writer who is Myra's "alter ego." Rex thinks the experience will help him as a critic and" is not afraid...
...Smart shoppers may also save by declining a dealer's offer to make arrangements for "on-the-spot financing." Chances are that the bank pays the dealer what amounts to a "finder's fee" for lining up the loan. The fee often amounts to $100 on three-year loans, or enough to compensate the dealer for some cuts in the price of the auto. Buyers aware of such special ties between dealers and their banks may be able to bargain for a better sales price or simply make their own loan arrangements...
...result: 16 stolen bases for Carew, 30 for Tovar. One day in May, Carew completely shattered the Detroit defense by stealing second, third and home in the span of seven pitches. Martin insists that stealing home, despite its rarity, is easier than a theft of second base because a smart runner can get a sizable jump on a pitcher, especially if the hurler is going into a full windup. Carew makes that arguable statement sound unassailable. "Each time he stole home," says Martin, "you'd think he'd been shot out of a cannon...
Even savage tribes, and in fact the lower animals, have strict sex regulations. This is necessary, as human experience has demonstrated. Now we have partially educated smart alecks who seem to feel that they have discovered sex. Their cry for emancipation from what they term prudery shows their stupidity and lack of anthropological perspective. We don't need more license; we need more common sense, restraint and decency...
Dehumanized or not, the crew fully measures up to Boss Astronaut Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton's tough requirements. "You're really looking for a damn good engineering test pilot," says Slayton. "They've got to be good stick and rudder men, and also real smart." Not many qualify. Of 1,400 applicants for the last batch of astronauts in 1967, only eleven were chosen. There are now only 49 astronauts and, in many ways, all are as precise as the laws of celestial mechanics?and as unforgiving as the machines that hurtle them through space. Says Slayton of his astronauts...