Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next, there is the Music Hall. The old Metropolitan, it is still called by older Bostonians. It is the second largest movie house in the country. It seats over 4,000. The Music Hall tends to stick with sure hits. Whenever the Boston schools relinquish their charges for a week of vacation, the management never fails to be ready with the latest James Bond extravaganza or yet another Italian western. At $1.50 a head, 4,000 popcorned kids make for a pretty respectable showing on a rainy Saturday afternoon...
...overtime frame. Despite a leg injury that slowed him down considerably in the later stages of the contest, he managed to break down the right side of the field past the Tiger defense, cut toward the net and drill a hard shot past the startled Princeton goalie's outstretched stick...
...foreign invasion has indeed caught Detroit with its prices up. In the late 1950s, U.S. carmakers met the same challenge by introducing compacts, but prices and sizes for those models have risen sharply, resulting in the same old problem. Volkswagen, with its new "automatic stick shift" that offers the driver a choice of changing gears or not, now ranks No. 3 in sales behind the big Chevy and Ford models...
Lacrosse has evolved from a game of mass confusion to a contest of intricate strategy. It combines features most familiarly recognized in other sports which are in reality much younger. The speed of basketball with its picks, weaves, screens, and fast breaks, and the deft stick-handling of ice hockey both find usage in lacrosse...
...heart attack; in Manhattan. Whether it was tubes and resistors or TV sets and stereo consoles, Freimann was a bug about bugs: either make it right or not at all. Nor did he join the postwar race to discount, sold only at a fixed price-and made it stick so successfully that sales last year topped the $400 million mark...