Word: superable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pity the poor Baltimore fan, for this is not his year. He saw the supposedly invincible football Colts humiliated by the New York Jets 16-7 in January's Super Bowl; three months later he watched in utter disbelief as the Bullets, boasting the best record in the National Basketball Association, managed to blow four straight games in the playoffs to the New York Knicks. But hope is on the wing again. Last week, at the season's midpoint, baseball's highflying Orioles enjoyed a lavish 10½-game lead over the second-place Boston...
Mitchell is alarmed by what he calls the "super-concentration" of U.S. in dustry. The 200 largest companies, he notes, now control 58% of manufacturing assets, up from...
...Pimpernel." Against an otherworldly background of Screenland magazines, Baby Ruth candy bars, and zoot suiters jitterbugging to the music of "the Jive Bombers, the true Mi-kados of swing," camp life is not all camp. The prisoners are soon polarized into two groups. On the one hand are the Super Japanese, paying homage to the Emperor and extolling Yamato da-mashii, the Japanese fighting spirit. On the other are Super Americans, holding war-bond rallies and combat-volunteer recruitment drives...
...more improbable ways to produce a TV program would be to arm 75 children with super-8-mm. movie cameras and a supply of film, give them brief operating instructions and send them out into the world to shoot whatever subjects they choose. Yet that is exactly what NBC's Children's Theater did last April in one of TV's more imaginative experiments. The result was as remarkable as the concept: this week's television production of "As I See It," a stunningly perceptive child's-eye view of life...
...Nelms make another million." Now he has an even bigger and better idea: he is creating a $5,000,000 fund to provide huge public cocktail parties with free food and drink for anyone who wants to attend. By spending only the income Nelms can give several super swingers a year from now till the end of time. "This would be a real nice way to be remembered," he says...