Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cars, cocktail glasses and clothing with aggressive representations of the flag. But then, hardly any other citizens burn their nation's flag, or mock their own national anthem. To a growing number of Americans, apparently, the external symbols of patriotism have come to imply something else: a strident super-Americanism-or a collapsing standard of national and international morality. It is not difficult to perceive the causes for protest...
Each New Year's week means the same ritual for rock fans: AM radio playing the Big 100 Super Hits, rock critics pondering their definitive Top Ten albums, and heavy debates' at intimate parties turning to. "Who do you think's going to be the next Beatles...
...Super-brain. For hours, police had no idea how many snipers they were up against, but there seemed to be at least two, since blazes were set almost simultaneously on different floors. A besieging army of 200 uniformed policemen, detectives, sharpshooters and volunteers soon surrounded the motel. As the cordon tightened, the assailants found refuge behind the concrete walls of the rooftop's boiler room and stairwell casements. An armor-plated Marine helicopter made repeated passes as the cops tried to blast through the walls, but the sniper shots kept coming. Finally, eleven hours after the violence had begun...
Though it is understandably wary of the presidential appetite for power, Congress probably does not have all that much to worry about in the case of the super-Cabinet. The Government is strewn with the wreckage of earlier attempts at reorganization, and Nixon's may end up in the same heap despite all of the fanfare. In any case, dissenters in the bureaucracy will still be able to frustrate an activist President in their customary way: going on the sly to the press, to sympathetic members of Congress or to aroused constituencies among the public. A super-Cabinet does...
More than 30 years ago, TIME noted that "7,000,000 radio fans would find life harder to bear without Vic and Sade." Now, for all of us who regularly turned to the RCA Little Nipper or Philco Super Heterodyne ("No stoop, no squat, no squint"), it is time for nostalgic celebration. Vic, Sade and Rush Gook are back, along with Uncle Fletcher, Blue Tooth Johnson, Mr. Gumpox, and all those great everyday people who lived somewhere west of Dismal Seepage, Ohio, and east of Sweet Esther, Wis. As for the young, who may have wondered about cryptic...