Word: behemothly
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...Bill Pearl's health studio in Sacramento last week, a grunting behemoth of a man did twelve pushups, then collapsed in a sweat. "God, you're strong, Jesse," gasped an admirer. California Assemblyman Jesse Marvin ("Big Daddy") Unruh, 38, surveyed his 275-lb. girth and rumbled happily: "If I get any stronger, I'll be so goddam strong I'll be deadly...
...marvelous is U.S. technology today that practically any good idea can be turned into a product. The Army needed a giant ditchdigger. Barber-Greene Co. built one: a voracious behemoth that can dig a continuous trench 2-ft. wide and 6-ft. deep through any surface, including rock and coral, is now available to commercial purchasers. Le Tourneau Inc. of Texas built a mobile island crane that can be towed out to an offshore construction site, its legs sunk and anchored while it does its job. The job finished, the legs can be retracted, and the island crane towed...
...Hollywood's $15 million behemoth achieves a rare distinction: a super spectacle that lives up to its adjectives...
There was no letup in the outboard horsepower race. Outboard Marine's best-selling twins, Johnson and Evinrude, each unveiled a $908.50, 75-h.p. giant (up from 1958's 50 h.p. tops); Mercury showed off a 80 h.p. behemoth (price: $1,100 without propeller). While out-boarders felt that they were almost to the limit in horsepower for the hulls now in existence, Scott showed an experimental...
...Pennsy sounded like a bride left at the church. Said President James M. Symes: "I am disappointed." U.S. railmen have known for some time that the Pennsy is more anxious to merge than the Central, which has had its doubts about managing the $5.6 billion behemoth that would be formed by a merger. Meanwhile the seven smaller roads-Erie, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Reading, Delaware & Hudson, New York, Chicago & St. Louis, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western-that had huddled in October to discuss what to do in the face of a Central-Pennsy merger also dropped their own merger talks...