Word: super
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone with the wind is the struggle against slavery; here at last is the War that was actually a super-world-series. Everyone is urged to join the fun, and men like Senator Case of New Jersey should not try to spoil it by objecting that the Federal celebration is being held under segregated conditions...
When it passes closest to Venus, the vehicle will be some 43.5 million miles from earth. At that point, "an accurately aimed parabolic antenna, for super-long-range communication, will open." To catch the distant signals, the Soviets have set up a special tracking and control center inside Russia, have also installed ' smaller telemetering stations on Soviet ships at sea. But there is some doubt that Venusnik will get through to earth. Last week the Soviets tried to reach it by radio and failed, said further attempts will be made "on subsequent days...
Speaking before an audience of 400 at the Loeb Drama Center, Nadine Gordimer claimed that "South Africa lacks the culture from which literature draws its real substance." She quoted Reinhold Niebuhr's criteria for a national super-entity, noting that her country has no common language, philosophy, or historical experience, no ethnic kinship, and common...
...Ohrbach's ("copies of haute couture"}-and how to get by adequately on $12 to $13 a day. It suggests that tourists eat as Americans do-at drugstores, Howard Johnson's ("excellent soup of mussels,'' i.e., clam chowder), Chock Full O' Nuts ("that super-American institution''), and a hectic Broadway cafeteria named Hector's. The Budget-Baedeker adds that tourists need not worry, no matter how unprepossessing the restaurant, since "food is handled everywhere under conditions of strictest hygiene...
...Super Chevrolet. A "Super Sport'' version of the six-passenger Impala model is being introduced by Chevrolet. It has such sports-car features as heavy-duty springs and shock absorbers, a tachometer, four-speed racing transmission, and a bar for the front-seat passenger to hang on to during high-speed turns. There is a choice of 305-, 340-or 350-h.p. engines, or about 70 to 115 h.p. greater than present Chevy engines. Price: about $700 more than regular Impala models...