Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notion that a TIME SPORT cover is a jinx dates back to the 1930s-possibly to the day in 1936 when a spectacular rookie named Joe DiMaggio went 0 for 5 at the plate and flubbed two easy chances in the field just as his portrait appeared on TIME'S cover. Long-memoried readers sometimes remind us that Leo Durocher's year-long banishment from baseball started with his cover in April 1947, that Golfer Ben Hogan lost the Los Angeles Open the week of his cover in 1949 and that undefeated Navy was stunningly upset by S.M.U...
Even as the Soviet troika circled the earth, the U.S. was busily preparing a space spectacular of its own. On the morning of Nov. 14, only 117 days after man's conquest of the moon, the eyes of the world will again be focused on Cape Kennedy's pad 39A. Though the flight of Apollo 12 may seem like history relived, the second American effort to land men on the moon should be almost as dramatic as its predecessor. It will demand every bit as much daring from its all-Navy crew...
...campaign. If it were, the campaign would obviously fail. In the two weeks since Manhattan's B. Altman & Co. first advertised its version of the peekaboo "linear jumpsuit," the store has been selling them so fast that it already has ordered 1,200 more. Other retailers report similarly spectacular sales. Customer comments range from the predictable ("It's divine" "It's the uniform for the '70s") to the profane (the garments fit so tightly that getting into one is a chore). Women who feel that the sheer suit is too revealing can always camouflage strategic spots...
...following year earned the first of three successive Olympic crowns. As astute in business as she was graceful on skates, she turned professional in 1936, made eleven movies (One in a Million, Thin Ice, Sun Valley Serenade), which grossed $25 million, and produced more than a dozen spectacular ice shows before retiring...
...Battle of Britain is one of those inane, stiff-upper-lip war flicks that attempt to make up with historical accuracy what they lack in dramatic impact. There are lots of old airplanes, Spitfires, Messerschmitts and the like, and a couple of spectacular dogfights. At film's end, there is even a list of the dead and wounded on both sides, flashed onscreen like a kind of post-game scoreboard. Additionally, an all-star cast is recruited to man the planes and give some faint semblance of life to the statistics. This presents its own problems, however: once they...