Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clean Sweep. In Richmond, Calif., after a night of tippling, seven vacuum-cleaner salesmen decided to stage a selling competition at 4:50 a.m., knocked on the door of John A. Penberthy, who dispersed them with three shots...
...arms race is a frightening thing, but eighty sovereign nations suddenly turning up without arms is truly terrifying. One may even presume that Russia came forward with the most sensational of the disarmament proposals -total disarmament in four years-just because it is terrifying. A dictator dearly loves a vacuum, and he loves to rattle people. Disarmament in this day would increase, not diminish, the danger of war. Today's weapons are too destructive to use, so they stand poised and quiet; this is our strange climate, when arms are safer than no arms. If modern arms make...
...happy life as heavyweight champ, Ingemar Johansson (see SPORT) found U.S. advertisers beating a path to his throne with blank checks and myriad products for him to endorse-everything from Pioneer key rings to Man-Tan and Lord West tuxedos. Only a few went away disappointed. Among them: a vacuum cleaner manufacturer who wanted the champ to lie down on a rug in the ad, and a group of prosperous salami makers who wanted Ingo to pose beside a pile of salami (Ingo agreed to do it, but not for hay: he asked...
...next-door neighbor. She runs a worn track to the front door, buys more Girl Scout cookies and raffle tickets than she thinks she should, cringes from the suburban locust-the door-to-door salesman who peddles everything from storm windows to potato chips, fire-alarm systems to vacuum cleaners, diaper sendee to magazine subscriptions. She keeps the checkbook, frets for the day that her husband's next raise will top the flood of monthly bills (it never will)-a tide that never seems to rise as high in the city as it does in the suburbs...
...wind tunnel, air is first pumped out of a big vacuum chamber. Then a valve is opened and new air rushes in. On its way, it passes through a flaming arc using kilowatts enough to light a city. The air's temperature soars to 14,000° F., and it whams into samples of ablating material that behave as if they were part of a real nose cone...