Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only real doubt about Spain's chances centered on Juan Gisbert, a young (22) Barcelona law student and tennis unknown, whose one claim to fame was a victory over Teammate Santana in a minor tournament last spring. Gisbert wiped out that doubt by polishing U.S.'s No. 1 player, Dennis Ralston, in last week's first match−breaking Ralston's service seven times in a row for a 3-6, 8-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory. Ralston took his defeat with typically bad grace, complaining, among other things, about the court, the heat...
...inevitably there were still questions. No one knew whether Ramírez had gone berserk, as he claimed, or had deliberately planned a hijacking. What happened to the cook was unknown. It was fairly certain, at least, that the bloodbath occurred in U.S. jurisdictional waters. At week's end the Justice Department charged Ramírez with five counts of murder, one of piracy...
Clutter of Gimmicks. Sunbeam and its competitors do much of this business in products that were unknown five years ago. Growing affluence and the trend to easier living have stimulated demand for almost everything electric, from cradle rockers to foot warmers. Small appliances also sell well because, unlike a refrigerator or a dishwasher, most are in the $25-and-under price range and are often bought on impulse. The market is still cluttered with many gimmicks (electric whisk brooms and wastepaper baskets), but it has also made many onetime luxuries commonplace. Sales of ice crushers and combination electric knife sharpener...
...ability to detect seismic signals. With so many instruments spaced so far apart, it will also be possible to trace the direction and distance of an incoming signal because it will be received by all sensors at slightly different times. Though its potential detection capability is still unknown to scientists, the practical extent of the improvements will be checked in the next few months when LASA will be used to record and analyze signals from known earthquakes and known nuclear blasts...
...more picturesque byways and inadvertently slays a CIA agent during a throat-tightening exchange scene in an underground garage, where triggermen and headlights dare each other to blink. The scientist is ransomed, but his memory seems oddly impaired. Soon the hero is fleeing kidnapers, the CIA, and an unknown British traitor or two. After one fracas aboard a boat train to Paris, he wakes up drugged in what appears to be an Albanian prison-actually, it's somewhere in the center of London-and begins squirming toward the conclusion of a nightmare plot to scramble British brainpower...