Word: smokeless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Stephen, a boisterous man with a hearty appetite for just about anything cooked over a charcoal fire, could not find a smokeless barbecue grill that delivered the slow, even heat he wanted. So one day in 1951 he selected a steel spinning from the Chicago sheet-metal factory, Weber Bros. Metal, of which he was part owner. He had a foreman shape it into a bowl, fashioned a spherical cover, and installed the contraption in the backyard of his home in Mount Prospect...
Stephen is currently backing up his grill with a corny promotion campaign featuring TV spots and live demonstrations in shopping centers around the country, during which "Sammy Scorch" messes up a meal on an old-style barbecue while a nattily attired "Freddie Flavor" prepares smokeless dinners on his Weber...
Nobel had provided for the establishment of the Peace Prize in his will. Evidently, he was deeply troubled by the destruction caused by his invention of dynamite and smokeless gunpowder. Of all the 72 recipients of the prize since 1901, probably none comes closer than Sakharov to the spirit of Nobel's bequest. The father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Sakharov went on to become an indefatigable fighter for thermonuclear disarmament and democracy in the U.S.S.R. The citation by the Nobel committee in Oslo called him "a firm believer in the brotherhood of man, in genuine coexistence...
...competition as well as he does. Zaire's President Mobutu reminds Mailer of "a snake around a stick." Fight Promoter Don King's intellectual pretensions are pricked by simply quoting his pronunciation of the German philosopher "Knees Itch." George Plimpton's genteel competitiveness makes him "a smokeless Vesuvius...
...coal from oil. In fact, early Bureau of Mines tests in commercial scale plants at Rifle, Colorado, showed that oil could be made from coal at no cost per barrel when produced in series with a steam-generated electric power plant, using its excess steam to produce gasoline, a smokeless solid fuel, and liquid fuels worth more than the cost of the raw coal itself...