Word: super
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their efforts, Eastern trains continue to run a sad second to the still grand lines of the West. The Santa Fe last year spent $8,000,000 on new dome cars for its El Capitan from Chicago to Los Angeles and its San Francisco Chief, also refurbished its famed Super Chief. The Santa Fe now offers gift certificates for train-trip presents and, for $12, a meal-ticket book good for all five meals on trains between Chicago and Los Angeles...
Hottest news for the cold season are tailored outfits made from a new super-stretch fabric that feels more comfortable, sticks much closer to the facts. For $65, Jack Winter has whipped up a stretch suit with a thin, double-breasted jacket that would look more familiar in a Courreges workshop than on a practice slope. Sleeker still is a $40 White Stag jump suit with a neckline that plunges well below the fall line, exposing an Irish sweater, a turtleneck jersey-or whatever front a girl wants...
...Your cover story on Jimmy Brown [Nov. 26] is enlightening, incisive, colorful and above all, fair. As painful as it may be for Brown worshipers to admit, Superman is not too super as a person. But this of course does not detract from his athletic greatness. Your writer has come closest yet to putting the finger on what makes Jimmy...
...would have taken a super-human feat for Hayes to have upset Williams, either. Only one event before Shrout's 100 victory, he had defeated Army Captain Frank Pratt with a 2:02.6 timing in the 200-yard butterfly...
...Abroad. In a nation in which half the population is under 29, the future is unbounded for any business that caters to young people. The brightness of the youth market is reflected in the recent successes of surfboards, pancake houses, false eyelashes, and the Super-Ball, which can bounce for a full minute before stopping. At the other extreme, prospects are healthy for businesses that sell goods and services primarily to people over 65. The lengthening life span and the increase in social-security payments-plus the passage of medicare -will heighten demand for hospital supplies, medical equipment, nursing homes...