Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kidding. Ah, but Yogi was smarter than the average bear. While he was getting yuks, Yankee pitchers were getting the sign and the team was winning pennants-ten under Casey Stengel, three straight under laconic Ralph Houk. For fun and profit, Yogi built a bowling alley in Clifton, N.J., became a vice president of something called Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink, and prospered to the point that he could claim to be "half a millionaire." Stengel liked to call him "Mr. Berra, my assistant manager," and Houk promoted him to player-coach this year. No one could figure out if they...
...routes. "We are flying and will keep flying," he vowed. The airline has already launched an advertising campaign extolling the scenic charms of such offbeat places as Luanda and Las Palmas, and a Cape Town columnist eloquently extolled the uses of adversity. "Boycotts have turned us into smarter salesmen," the pundit wrote. "Arms embargoes have forced us to make our own weapons, and the air ban has sent a patriotic thrill running down the South African Airways fuselage...
...Smarter Crooks. When it comes to solving crime, it is still elementary to call in Scotland Yard. Last week, led by such wise old bluebottles as Commander George Hatherill, 65, the Yard's dean of sleuths, who speaks eight languages and has solved 17 murders, Yard men investigating the Great Buckinghamshire Train Robbery succeeded in rounding up nine suspects, recovered $761,367 of the $7,000,000 loot. Also on hand were Ernest Millen, boss of the Flying Squad, alias the Heavy Mob, whose 100-odd sleuths know more about the underworld than Dante; and the Terrible Twins...
...just the reverse: the Pentagon's increasingly sharper bargaining on defense contracts. The defense industry admits that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's band of tough-minded procurement officers is doing the best job of military buying in history. "The longer the Government is in business, the smarter it gets," says Lawrence A. Harvey, president of Harvey Aluminum. "The smarter it gets, the closer it bargains. The closer it bargains, the lower the profits...
...frantic, phonetic dialect, in which breathtaking obscenities are so pervasive that they soon cease to shock, will at first sympathize with him. But Author Gover is gleefully staging the classic confrontation between educated fool and ignorant sage. Even in broken English, Kitten soon turns out to be a lot smarter and pleasanter than JC. When he decides to steal her car and keep it until she returns the money, he describes the move "as a last recourse to retaliatory capability, humanely applied as persuasion rather than force per se." Kitten, however, knows this liberty cabbage for the sauerkraut...