Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent word out from Vien Hoa Dao to cool it. In an astonishing display of their power to turn the masses off and on at will, the demonstration was transformed into a peaceful, highly organized march. The 15,000 faithful that assembled at the institute left behind their plastic-bag gas masks and clubs and grenades. As they marched out to demonstrate, burly Boy Scouts ranged themselves abreast as a vanguard, staves held waist high, to keep the crowd in line. In two short hours, the promenade was over, as smoothly orchestrated in its tranquillity as the previous week...
...rout began in the second inning when Tobin looped a single to center. He took second when no one covered the bag and was driven in by Bob Welz's double to left...
Seconds later the Terrier catcher tried to pick Weiz off second. But once again the bag was left uncovered, and the throw sailed into center field giving the Crimson another tainted...
...into operation the relatively small short-run jet aircraft -in Braniff's case the BAC One-Eleven -providing places like Sioux Falls, S. Dak., with commercial jet service for the first time. Needing only a 48% passenger load for Braniff to break even, the 63-seat BAG One-Eleven has averaged 61.1%. In addition, Lawrence put Braniff's four-engine Boeing jets on a new schedule of daytime flying and nighttime maintenance. As a result, they now fly 11½ hours daily instead of eight, and Braniff's profit sheets show the difference...
...arranger, Sid Bass, deserves a far more prominent billing than the one afforded him: He has been forced to reach deep into his bag of tricks, coming up with virtually every phoney-baloney recording studio technique of goosing one non-existent voice and twelve non-existent melody lines into a passable record. The resulting styles skip from Chinese to Calypso, by way of a plethora of hoked-up Folk Rock, and the one catchy tune, Bamiba, turns out to be an old Kingston Trio favorite, complete with only slightly altered lyrics. This theft, I must add, is in the best...