Word: super
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Warsaw last week, thousands of Polish housewives queued up for sugar, flour, salt and potatoes. A shiny new self-service market called "Super Sam"* rang up $4,000 in sales during its first two hours...
...Sandy Koufax, Johnny Podres, Stan Williams, Larry Sherry and a trio of good rookies, looks fine, but Ed Roebuck has not been of much help in the bull-pen. It is hard to conceive of the Dodgers keeping pace with the Giants, a beautifully balanced squad with two real super-stars...
...diving three-string catch of Elsten Howard's low liner saved a Detroit victory and how, after lying prostrate in short right-center for five minutes, Kaline walked off the field--only to pass out in the shower and learn he had a broken collar-bone. Always a super-star, the 27-year-old Kaline was enjoying the best season's start of his career, carrying the slumping Tigers on his back. The lead was too heavy...
...sermon is a kind of good-tempered antinomian tract, expressing a universal and perfectly justified skepticism about mostly everything. And there is entirely too much tolerance for the skepticism to ever become bitter. The most biting sketch in The Black Book is a caricature of a red-neck super-patriot Wildcat--"It's people like me what come from old stock that knows a Real American from a Phony--that's where the government breaks down--they got too many card-carryin' spies feedin' off our tax money." But even this ridiculous, blustering monologue is more in fun than condemnation...
...Mitsubishi shipyard, which in wartime turned out Japan's super-dreadnoughts Yamato and Musashi, is now the world's largest, and last week was busily expanding in order to build the biggest supertankers (150,000 tons) ever launched. Bustling Nagasaki, reports TIME Correspondent Don Connery, views atom-haunted Hiroshima with wry condescension and a touch of envy. Dr. Soichiro Yokota, director of the city's Atomic Bomb Hospital, sniffs that Hiroshima "is better at propaganda than we are," adding with a smile: "It's also true that Nagasaki is like the man who flew the Atlantic...