Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seeking a scapegoat for high food prices, Nixon has pointed his finger at various unnamed "middlemen." The farmer, he declared, gets only about a third of the U.S. food dollar, while others-presumably packers, truckers, wholesalers, distributors and super-marketeers-swallow the rest. Nixon was being a bit casual with his statistics. In fact, the farmer gets 400 of the food dollar (see chart, page 22). He does even better on relatively unprocessed foods like meat, raw vegetables and fruit. Ranchers pocket about two-thirds of the retail price for beef, which accounted for the biggest chunk of the February...
...ticket holders across the street to stand aimlessly in front of a department store. Finally, as superintendent of an apartment building, he "hustled garbage cans" and lived in a basement room. Taped to his door with Band-Aids was an 8-by-10 glossy of himself. Underneath was written "super." Says Pacino, "That was down about as far as anyone...
...movie I remembered one character from the play, Lucentio. Played by Mr. York. "Romeo and Juliet," another Zeffirelli extravaganza? I could have ravedfor hoursabout the figure of Tybalt. Guess why. A year or so later I was ready to go to college. A serious academically inclined young lady? How super to read at Oxford or Cambridge; such a stimulating intellectual atmosphere? Looking back, I am rather dubious about such reasoning. I'm afraid my imagination was busy populating the cricket-fields of those institutions of learning with the ubiquitous presence of countless Michael Yorks: tan and rugged, batter...
...electric cattle prods and steel-knobbed umbrellas can be wrestled from the grasp of a struggling victim and turned against him. Sprays, for all their sophistication, have a nasty and altogether self-defeating tendency to blow back in the user's face. There is even a drawback to "Super Sound," an ear-piercing air horn attached to an aerosol can and designed to summon help while startling attackers. It can damage the hearing of mugger and muggee alike...
Skiing's super-schusser, Karl Schranz, 33, who was barred from skiing with the Austrian team in the Sapporo Olympics on the grounds that he had repeatedly broken the amateur regulations, has announced that he is going to give up Alpine racing, though he is not yet ready to become a full-fledged professional. "I should like to end my career in dignity, and not as an outlaw of international sports politics," said Schranz, who in 18 years of competition has won three world championships, two World Cups, eleven Austrian championships and eight firsts in the famed Arlberg-Kandahar...