Word: smash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about ten spots, including Sagua la Grande and Remedios on the northern coast, and San Cristobal and Guanajay on the western end of the island (see map above, and pictures on following eight pages). Under construction were a half-dozen bases for 2,500-mile missiles, which could smash U.S. cities from coast to coast. In addition, the films showed that the Russians had moved in at least 25 twin-jet Ilyushin-28 bombers that could carry nuclear bombs...
Almost two months before reaching Broadway. Mr. President seemed to have all the makings of a smash hit. The musical was written, after all, by Irving Berlin, Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse. It is directed by Joshua Logan and produced by Leland Hayward. In tribute to the pulling power of those names, Mr. President has already sold nearly $2,000,000 worth of tickets and will probably run up an advance of $2,500,000, pushing Camelot ($3,000,000) as the most presold production of all time. More than 150 groups have anxiously signed up for "benefit" theater parties...
...Prevent Hail. During the warm months, the Appalachian fruit region is occasionally pelted by hailstones as big as golf balls, which smash and bruise the ripening apples and peaches. In 1957, after a year of especially heavy hail damage, fruitgrowers in the four states got together in an organization called the Blue Ridge Weather Modification Association. They hired a cloud-seeding firm to combat the costly hail...
...political duet (no answer), declares that he "can do all the things the present Governor is doing and sing too." A proven musician (he wrote The Lonesome Road, When My Sugar Walks Down the Street, How Come You Do Me Like You Do?), he hopes to become a smash political hit with a platform plugging $100-a-month pensions for every Nevada resident over 65, to be financed by boat-race sweepstakes on Nevada lakes. He also urges that all the candidates take lie-detector tests to see if they will keep their promises...
...follower or a leader. I can do a fast early pace. I can maintain sustained drive well. I have instantaneous acceleration. But I need an adrenalin shock on the last lap-somebody to make the adrenalin come." The man Beatty hopes will provide the shock he needs to smash Peter Snell's world record: Snell himself. "If I met Snell right now," he says, "I think it would be a very good race. I'm mentally ready for anything...