Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reloading: they tape two magazines together upside down; after one magazine is burnt out, it can be swiftly inverted and the other inserted. The added weight of the second magazine, however, is enough to draw the lip of the first magazine out of true, and can lead to a bent round and a fatal jam. Moreover, Delta mud, jungle gunk, and the grit blown up by helicopter rotors demand the rifleman's constant attention...
Back-seat Psychiatry. New Yorkers, however, are born survivors. The immediate challenge was to operate the elevators-if possible. Steve Frenkel, a 19-year-old Hunter College engineering student living in a West Side building, pried open a stricken lift with a bent coat hanger, taught himself how to operate the machine, then enlisted other tenants on a rotation watch schedule. In many another highrise, kids gleefully took over the elevator controls. One East Side boy, pressed into service to spare his parents' dinner guests the rigors of the stairway, demanded-and got - $1 for his stint behind...
Died. Philippa Schuyler, 34, Harlem-born pianist with a strong journalistic and humanitarian bent, a onetime child prodigy who performed her own compositions with the New York Philharmonic at 14, in later years made concert tours to many of the world's troubled areas, recounting her impressions in newspaper articles and several outspoken books (Who Killed the Congo), also helped found the Amerasian Foundation to aid the mothers of illegitimate children fathered by U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; in the crash of a U.S. Army helicopter; near Danang, South Viet Nam, where she was doubling as entertainer and correspondent...
...showed up last week for the previously announced band concert at Syracuse University's Grouse Hall were in for a jolt. The band had been canceled, and in its place was a performance with two pianos that were out of tune with each other, a soprano who bent her notes off pitch, and a chamber ensemble that blatted, swooped and squeaked like an ordinary orchestra warming up. At first it all sounded merely crabbed and comic, but soon it also took on the astringent freshness of a brave new musical vocabulary. It was a group of the Syracuse music...
French shoppers are inveterate food feelers-they pinch tomatoes, squeeze head lettuce, pull artichoke leaves, even give cheese a little poke before stashing it in their shopping sacks. Michel Turquet, 46, a former supermarket manager with a technocratic bent, hopes to change all that. If he gets his way, francs will come before fondles...