Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kane found the three weeks he spent traveling with the Tigers a kind of on-the-job vacation. As a ball fan who grew up in Washington, D.C., and learned the game by watching the ever-losing Senators, he found it pleasant to be with a winner for a change. "While my associates were involved with more serious problems-convention coverage and urban warfare-I was utterly consumed with baseball. I sat through some fifteen ball games, including a doubleheader that had a 19-inning second game. I was never bored for a minute...
...police headquarters, the city displayed what it called a "sophisticated" array of weapons used by the demonstrators. It included a pingpong ball studded with nails, a jar containing two black-widow spiders, bricks, broken bottles and a razor blade. About 100 such weapons were exhibited-hardly an overwhelming arsenal for 10,000 "terrorists." The principal flaw in the Daley report is that while concentrating on the admitted provocations to police by many of the youths, it virtually ignores the savagery of police in attacking demonstrators, newsmen and onlookers alike. The most that Daley would concede is that "some innocent bystanders...
Although the theory remains vague, the potential uses of Nitinol alloys seem apparent enough. Goodyear Aerospace Corp. has already demonstrated that a complex Nitinol satellite antenna crumpled up into a small ball before launching can be restored to its original form simply by heating it in space. The same procedure has been proposed for orbiting a radio telescope as large as a mile in diameter. "All we have to do," says Buehler, "is put these large structures into suitably compact packages on the ground and then kick them into space and let them unfold from solar heating...
...become more jaded in the process. And yet the high life somehow must go on. The challenge is to create an event so special, so sumptuous, so unequaled that it cannot be missed. Everybody must talk about it for months, charter yachts, planes and limousines, book hairdressers, order new ball gowns, do and dare anything just to be there. No matter how boring it is once they get there, just having their names on the guest list automatically makes them Beautiful People...
...gowns, to embrace and exclaim. No one could bear to miss a moment. As Iran's ex-Queen Soraya explained: "I'm very pained over what happened in Iran. But an earthquake can happen anywhere. That's no reason for me not to go to a ball...