Word: super
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roadblock. As Hagerty's Lockheed Super Constellation touched down from Okinawa, 30 minutes late, a wild melee broke out on the terrace between the right-wing and the left-wing toughs. Some 2,000 police surged forward to separate the combatants, while the sedate elders looked on in dismay. Ambassador MacArthur welcomed Hagerty and his companion. Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens; the three paused briefly for photographs and then hurried to the ambassador's official black Cadillac. It sped off, followed by two Fords carrying six U.S Secret Servicemen. Just nine days later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was scheduled...
Glove Men. Richards readily admitted that his team has no super star, no candidate for the batting title. "We try to choke off their runs, keep them down and let them give us the game," he said. "Our style is like punting and praying in football, or just hitting it back in tennis. You've got to start with the defense. If you can't get the other fella out, you can't win the game, no matter how many runs you score...
...ailing company. He slashed costs, ramrodded through a diversification program into electronics, plastics, nuclear reactors, rockets and ultrasonics. But in pushing diversification, he let his research and work on products coming off the line lag. Although the Wright turbo compound engine was standard on both the DC-7 and Super Constellation, it proved so unsatisfactory that airlines were not interested in Wright engines for the new jet airliners. Defense business also faded...
...Talkeetna came Don Sheldon, 37, one of Alaska's great bush pilots. Airlifting rescuers, Sheldon shuttled dozens of men to a base camp at 10,200 ft., where they began their careful climb. When Crews reported that Mrs. Bading's condition was worsening, Sheldon gunned his Piper Super Cub to an uphill landing on a glacier at 14,500 ft., waited as Crews and another member of his party stumbled down to the plane and then whisked the woman to safety. In another small plane, Anchorage Contractor William Stevenson, accompanied by an Army observer, tried to drop radio...
...fact of the super-sleek 1960 New Yorker that those who love it best worry about it the most. Contributor Phyllis McGinley thinks of The New Yorker as the place where she was "first published, weaned, pruned and loved." Says she: "Whereas I once read it cover to cover, now I read it like a tired businessman. It's no longer a funny magazine; yet it isn't a literary magazine either. They still seem to think they're witty and sophisticated, but they're not. They're afraid of originality...