Word: super
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amid proliferating acronyms--and especially since the announcement of the new super-program last December -- CBCC has simply ceased to be the loud, clear voice of the community. The prospect of ever-increasing sums of money has prompted local skirmishes, as power enclaves are guarded and political fortunes pondered...
Turquet owns Super-Marché de Poche, Paris' first computerized grocery store, which in the space-starved city sells 1,700 articles in its 240-sq.-ft. display area. A customer is given a plastic envelope and directed to the shelf space, which bears one sample of each product, plus a pile of punch cards. As he shops, he selects white cards for spices, blue for canned goods, red for dairy products, and so on. Finally he gives the cards to an operator who feeds them to a computer; in seconds the machine spews out a list...
Still, the traditionalists demand scientific, rather than deductive, proof. And, in fact, there is a dearth of such experimentation on the Reading Dynamics techniques. Evelyn and her partisans claim that nobody has been able to invent a machine with enough range to test the super-reader. The college reading teachers say that nobody has asked them to build one. Neither side appears anxious to obtain indisputable truth. There is too much to lose. At this point, each has a vested interest in maintaining the status...
Horrid quasar Near or far, This truth to you I must confess; My heart for you is full of hate O super star, Imploded gas, Exploded trash, You glowing speck upon a plate. Of Einstein's world you've made a mess...
Belt-'em-Out. Super Showman Cohen did not miss a schtick. Searchlights raked the sky; a 25-piece band blared Give My Regards to Broadway. Limousines glided up to the theater on 800 sq. yds. of red carpeting. Unlike the Emmy and Oscar awards, which grind on endlessly, honoring the best stunt man to fall off a burning building in a foreign independently produced black-andwhite wide-screen musical comedy, the $450,000 Tony spectacular restricted the on-camera awards to just twelve categories, devoted the rest of the time to full-dress performances from the four best-musical...