Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They already are. But the Sydney System, as they call it, only sounds simple. The gambler plays a machine until he gets a high-scoring symbol on the reel farthest to his left. Then, after inserting another coin, he gingerly eases the handle forward until he feels tension, pauses, eases the handle even more gingerly farther down until he hears two clicks, returns handle to its normal position and gives it a sharp, final yank. If expertly performed, this maneuver freezes the lefthand symbol, usually brings up a corresponding symbol on the second reel as well. If not, repetition...
Partly because it has been the universal symbol of wealth since before the Lydians invented money. More practically, gold is limited in supply and therefore fairly stable; it is valuable even in small amounts, and thus eminently portable. Unlike paper currencies, it is immune to inflation, loss of value and most other disasters. It is a keystone of the international monetary system, more highly prized than most paper currencies...
...once, once we may remember, we had an honest standard-bearer. Once idealism had a living symbol. She has bared her bosom to the wind. Our ugly world can have little claim...
...George Wrangel, replaced a year ago by Colin Fox, a dashing British solo Atlantic sailor. Nonetheless, Ellerton F. Jette, 65, retiring this month as president of Maine's C. F. Hathaway Co., admitted that the original suggestion by Adman David Ogilvy to use an "injured man" as a symbol gave Jette the shudders. "Why stress an unfortunate aspect, such as partial blindness?" he asked. He soon found his answer: it sure sold shirts...
...bodies of the long-legged birds were wrapped in cloth, stuffed into pottery jars, and piled up like bricks. Digging deeper in the ground, Emery found an amazing network of ancient tunnels, most of them piled to their roofs with ibis mummies. Since the ibis was an Egyptian symbol of wisdom, they indicated to Emery that somewhere near by had stood the long-lost shrine of Imhotep, the Egyptian father of medicine, who was probably the first intellectual to impress his name on history...