Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they are men employed by each automaker to ferret out the secrets of the others -auto spies. Though the industry officially declines to recognize its existence, espionage is an ever-present fact of life that goes on at all levels in Detroit, from treetops overlooking test tracks to the steam room and bars at the Detroit Athletic Club. The hunting season usu ally begins a couple of model-years in advance, when the cars of the future are barely off the drawing boards...
...much of the giant Democratic urban machinery has become rusty and undependable since 1960. Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogilvie, an able politician and one Republican who survived the 1962 election against Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley's legions, thinks the Daley juggernaut has lost a lot of steam, and predicts flatly if bravely: "Goldwater will carry Cook County...
...roughly sets the tone, two hoods, contracted by Con Man Ronald Reagan, show a fine flair for menace as they trail Cassavetes to a school for the blind, where they pummel a winsome blind receptionist. In another scene, they threaten to parboil a man sweating off pounds in a steam cabinet, thus warming up for the moment when they thrust leggy Angie Dickinson headfirst out the window of a skyscraper hotel room, trying to make her tell what happened to the $1,000,000 swag from a mail robbery...
Aside from the New York Times, which thought that Fidel's friendly new look "deserves serious scrutiny and thorough exploration," the reaction was generally cool. The State Department regarded the Cuban overture as an attempt to buy time and take some of the steam out of the OAS, advised Castro to back his words with evidence. Said a spokesman: "We have consistently maintained that there are two elements that are not negotiable-Castro's ties of dependency with the Soviet Union, which are tantamount to Soviet domination, and the continuance of Castro's promotion of subversion elsewhere...
...Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer is the sort of man who gives people pause. He stands 6 ft., weighs 190 Ibs., has a face like a clenched fist and a voice that starts out tenderly-like an avalanche. He carries shrapnel scars, two Bronze Stars, and a card in the steam fitters' union, has done his share of knocking around-places like Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Guam, Okinawa. And when he played rightfield for the Yankees from 1949 to 1959, his specialty was knocking down double-play-minded second basemen...