Word: yesteryears
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...aircraft mechanic I can say authoritatively that the airplane of today is not the airplane of yesteryear; it is a complex piece of electronic machinery that requires skills beyond the comprehension of the engineers who built the DC-3 and DC-6. I must know how to keep in airworthy condition no fewer than seven different airplanes made by four different manufacturers...
...practice of challenging dumfounded clerks to explain which products are the best buys. Denounced at first by the food industry-which has since heeded many of her suggestions-Mrs. Peterson received angry letters addressed to "Mrs. Snoopy." In defense of her mission, she points-out that in contrast to yesteryear's corner grocery, the modern supermarket stocks an average 8,000 items, contends that the citizen's "ability to judge must be aided." She has won high praise from President Johnson, who declared that "through her dedication a new day has dawned for the American consumer...
...however, does most of his thinking on the tennis court, where he has been called "an automaton guided by an electric brain." For 77 punishing minutes, before a near-record turnout of 13,541, he resisted a Gonzales onslaught marked by a dazzling echo of the towering serve of yesteryear and a Gonzales rush to the net in an effort to seize the lead. The crowd roared for their longtime favorite Gonzales. Slowly, methodically, Rosewall worked his opponent back to the base lines, until Gonzales yielded 7-5, 7-5, with a disgusted "Oh, no" as his last easy return...
Purple Ghosts. The basic problem, generally ignored, is that an unantennaed color set can get no better picture than an unantennaed black-and-white. The fellow grown accustomed to the foibles of his old machine is in for a shock when the "snow" of yesteryear becomes varicolored "confetti," and the old "ghosts" start haunting in green and purple halos. If either form of interference clouded the old black-and-white picture, it will all but eclipse the new color image...
...affluent society tend to be taller, broader and-initially at least-a mite softer than depression-reared Willie and Joe of World War II vintage. Johnson's Army greets them much as he himself might: with a conscious effort to respect their individual dignity. Even more incredible to yesteryear's warriors is the official aura of sobersided respectability that Johnson has tried valiantly to imbue...