Word: super
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this practiced repairmanship, the homeowner has developed his own countergambits. The wise antirepairman knows, for example, that he must never, never deal with underlings; he must always go straight to the top-write the company president. One St. Louis man gets super service by calling the repair-shop owner, threatening to come down and "punch the first person I see in the nose." Others try the food gambit, laying on sandwiches, beer or liquor for the repairman. And when all else fails, a wife can call the repairman's wife. Says one Milwaukeean: "I asked...
...famous name." On occasion, Dylan allowed himself to be caught by the hunters, and Caitlin makes no secret of the fact that she had fans of her own whom she was glad to oblige ("There is no doubt, in some people's minds, as to my super bitchery"). They hated each other for their infidelities: "It seems extraordinary to me now that we did not kill each other outright; we certainly got dangerously near to it." But it was only with Dylan dead and buried in his Welsh village of Laugharne ("this Godforsaken, Dylan-shared, vanishing...
...meteor-tracking Super-Schmidt telescopic cameras in Canada have been alerted to watch for the satellite, but Whipple indicated that he did not feel that adequate photographs of the object could be taken until a special telescope in South Pasadena, Calif., was able to observe it. Such observation will not be possible for at least ten days...
While stumping his home state of California, sniffing the gubernatorial air, and "reporting to the people" about Congress, Senate Minority Leader William F. Knowland, 49, stepped into an F-100F Super Sabre jet at Los Angeles International Airport for an invigorating supersonic flight, whizzed along over the Southern California desert at more than 1,000 m.p.h. to break the sound barrier, smilingly received a certificate of membership in the exclusive "Mach Buster's Club." Scheduled for this week: a Sacramento press conference at which every Californian from Governor Goodwin Knight to MGM's Leo the Lion expects...
...disease; in Manhattan. Berlin-bred son of a linen peddler, Lindy came to the U.S. at 25, worked as bus boy and waiter. In 1921 he unveiled the first Lindy's just south of 50th Street. Soon his menu featuring gefüllte fish, blintzes and super-cheesecake, attracted the famed and ill-famed heroes of Broadway's big-spending '20s, and Lindy's became the prototype of Damon Runyon's "Mindy...