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...slick hairstyles, doo-wop rock, and an incredible surfeit of guy-meets-girl romances that captured the imaginations of Americans like no other. Winthrop House's production of Grease plays on our idealization of '50s in such a way, both affectionate and mocking, that makes it the most entertaining sock-hop this weekend...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Grease is the Word | 12/13/1985 | See Source »

They were called, appropriately enough, the Sock Racer (although I wondered who would wear yellow socks), and would become, the shoe company claimed, the newest phase of the running shoe revolution...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Running: Still Crazy | 10/5/1985 | See Source »

...weeks ago, while training for this month's New York Marathon, I took a break and went to a running shoe store to check out a pair of the new yellow Sock Racer...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Running: Still Crazy | 10/5/1985 | See Source »

...spartan-looking facility is designed to be the nerve center of military space activities. When complete, CSOC (pronounced see-sock) is expected to command and control most military satellite missions and space shuttle flights, jobs that are currently performed at the Air Force Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. According to the Air Force, the first phase of construction (a subsidiary of Bechtel Group, Inc., alma mater of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz, was awarded the contract) will be finished by the end of 1985, enabling CSOC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roger, Houston . . . Er, Colorado | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...possible monthly series, in its Saturday Night Live slot May 11. Three videocassettes, including one on the Hulkster, are scheduled to hit the stores next month. There are Hulk Hogan action dolls, T shirts and sweatbands. Propelled by Hogan and Lauper, who last year brought her rock-'em sock-'em glamour to the "sport," wrestling has moved from the regional sideshows of trash sports to the national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hype! Hell Raising! Hulk Hogan! | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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