Word: sonics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example of the challenge facing parents is Tigrett Industries' fast-selling Golden Sonic ($20), a 20-in. long spaceship that will stop, start or change direction at the command of a whistle; so intricate is its mechanism, which is activated by a sound-sensitive diaphragm, that it comes with eight pages of instructions. Fairchild's transistor radio kit ($8.95), which operates on power drawn from sunlight or artificial light, supposedly can be assembled by a nine-year-old, but it includes a booklet of diagramed directions that many a parent will be hard-pressed to decipher. Other toyland...
...winter catalogue. Montgomery Ward urged: "Be an earth satellite observer." Spiegel's rocketed away with a "Super Satellite Station" for $3.98. Sears, Roebuck had a $6.37 "Radar Rocket Cannon,'' along with dozens of other fearsome armaments, and practically everyone wanted Tigrett Industries' $20 "Golden Sonic,'' a flying rocket ship powered only by a high-pitched whistle...
...married to celebrate"). Before his first year on TV was out, hard-drinking Don had missed more than 30 telecasts, but no one seemed to care. He latched onto two shows, Where's Sherwood? and Why Sherwood?, hit the West like a sonic boom...
...Returning to civilization sporting a handsome beard (TIME. July 15). Steeves. 23, was taken in tow by Air Force pressagents, sat for newspaper interviews, repeatedly told his dramatic survival story on TV. and finally got a $10.000 offer for his story from the Saturday Evening Post. Last week the sonic boom cracked around Dave Steeves's ears; the Satevepost announced that it was canceling its contract, and Steeves's wife Rita announced that she was considering a divorce...
...longer would they have to throttle back for their pass above the Will Rogers pylon. They could let down as fast as they wanted to - provided that they stayed above 5,000 ft. so that the shattering racket of a "sonic boom" would not un nerve spectators or jostle instruments...