Word: alto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fail-Safe. Movie cameras have also come in for a much-needed overhaul. In the last six years, the sale of 8-mm. movie cameras has dropped more than 60%, and the 16-mm. cameras have all but faded from the picture alto gether. One reason was that the cameras and projectors were simply too difficult to operate. As a result, the general run of home movies were bombs. Explained a Kodak survey in 1963: "Home movies create a situation in which one can fail. No man likes to appear a failure to his wife or children...
Letters began to pour into the legislators' offices, and people in Pough-keepsie, Pensacola, and Palo Alto began to hear of Harvard's sycamores...
They are Evelyn B. Ackerman of Edmands House and Brooklyn, N.Y. (History and Literature); Vivian O. Berger, of * Hall and New York City (History and Literature); Nancy L. Caroline of 83 Brattle St. and Newton Center (Social Relations); S. Jean Herriot, of Moors Hall and Palo Alto, Calif, (History); Mary Lou Mackey, of 24 Garden St. and Indianapolis Ind. (English); Patricia A. Munse of Comstock Hall and Urbann, * (Biology); Elisabeth Neumark, of * House and Jamaica, N.Y. (Mathematics); and Susan N. Rosenthal, of Moors Hall and Tenafly, N.J. (Chemistry...
When Hurst arrived in Camelot with the U.S. ambassador (played by 37-year-old Palo Alto Attorney Paul McCloskey Jr., a Marine reserve major), he was confronted by the local mayor, the regional governor, various American assistance officers, and Lancelot's army chief of staff, all of whom peppered the general with outrageous demands and entreaties. It was up to Hurst to field each demand, each new problem, and he played his part well, as General Krulak observed from a corner of the room...
...Strange McNamara, 78, mother of the Defense Secretary, who so valued the education typhoid kept her from completing that by the time young Robert started school she had force-read him, as she said, "as much literature as a normal 13-year-old knows"; of a stroke; in Palo Alto, Calif...