Word: pocketful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Where President Arturo Frondizi in familiar style, last week summarily put down a vest-pocket revolt of 150 ultranationalists without firing a shot, thus surviving his 3Oth crisis in 39 months in office...
...Pushbutton Montgomery Ward vending machine, now being tested in Chicago's La Salle Street Railroad Station. The 7-ft.-tall dispenser offers 53 different items, picked for appeal to commuters and travelers, ranging from muumuu nightgowns and panties to flashlights and pocket compasses. The machine accepts any amount of money up to $9.99 in any combination of coins or bills, visually records the amount paid in, returns the proper change when the customer has completed his shopping. Says the machine's attendant: "People are still a little bit afraid of it. They don't seem to want...
...stand silence. With his gadget turned up full-blast, the bleatnik goes about his pursuits with ear and mind cocked to sportscasts, disk-jockeywockey and what passes for pop music. He plods along, swinging his radio like an attaché case, or stuffs it into his shirt pocket, while the unrelenting blabber transists him like exhaust fumes. If he is using an earpiece receiver, identification may be more difficult, but there are certain telltale signs, as there are of hopheads and alcoholics: a faraway look of rapture, or just a plain, vacant stare...
...rest went off with Communist clockwork, as in any Red capital on any Red anniversary. There stood Gagarin, the pocket-sized Soviet hero, on the reviewing stand with Castro, who towers over him. There, below, were the cheering masses, the enormous pictures of Lenin and Khrushchev. The expected display of half a dozen Soviet MIG-17 jets thundered overhead on schedule. There was even a seven-hour gymkhana in Civic Square by 70,000 massed "athletes...
...Vegas, which saw its last nuclear explosion in 1958 when the U.S. and Russia informally agreed to stop testing. But the specter of the bomb still hangs over the landscape: the man who cares for the cattle rides the range with a radiation counter clipped to his shirt pocket. Last week, with resumption of testing still in the balance, the atomic cowpoke had plenty of company. Never abandoned by the AEC, the test site has blossomed with activity...