Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Smart, Tough and Quick...
...here, fellows, it's hard enough to find a job without having to compete with millions of smart, tough, quick, good-looking women...
Talent Merge. At TWA, Chief Executive Charles Tillinghast will put off his scheduled retirement on Jan. 31 and serve with two of the airline's top officers in a three-man office of the chairman. His colleagues: Edwin Smart, formerly senior vice president, corporate, who is expected to be the carrier's new chief, and C.E. Meyer, senior vice president in charge of finance. Part of the reason for the restructuring, according to analysts: TWA, which lost a record $81 million in the first eleven months of last year, has not found a top-notch executive from outside...
...intense beams are now used routinely in medicine to repair torn retinas, to remove cataracts and to burn away growths. They are also being used for welding and cutting steel. Lasers were used in Viet Nam to pinpoint bombing targets with a spot of light so that "smart bombs" equipped with infra-red sensors could seek them out. Since then, weapons researchers have been devising even more sophisticated uses for these potentially lethal beams of light...
...week after Harvard grants tenure to Doris Kearns, Cosmopolitian begins serializing her psycho-history of Lyndon Johnson, All the Way With LBJ. "Lyndon Johnson was a man of contradictions," the first installment reveals. "He was kind and cruel. Cheerful and morose. Refined and crude. Young and old. Smart and dumb. Tall and short." "Well," Harvey Mansfield, chairman of the Government department, remarks, "this isn't the first time I've been bamboozled by a broad, and it probably won't be the last...