Word: bolting
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...archrival, is playing in more than a dozen U.S. cities. Jackson is also starred in TV's Elizabeth R, a six-part series that has broken all ratings records for noncommercial television and is up for seven Emmy awards next week. On the New York stage, Robert Bolt's Vivat! Vivat Regina!, with Claire Bloom as Mary and Eileen Atkins as Elizabeth, has just finished a Broadway run and is scheduled to go on tour in the fall. Also in New York, a musical called Elizabeth I had a short run, and at Lincoln Center there...
Norman S. Sidney, chief of the MIT police, said yesterday that the three students had also tried to cut the lock with bolt cutters from the police department and were unable...
...lengthened the handle on one bolt cutter to six feet, and tried as hard as we could to cut one of the locks. We broke the jaws of the cutter," Intravia said...
...seem like it's a long way away, but it's as close as North Cambridge where Bolt, Beranek and Newman works on antisubmarine warfare devices. Its basic research on acoustics is useful in developing acoustic and seismic sensors used in Indochina. Parachuted from planes, the acoustic sensors become caught in trees where they pick up "enemy" conversations. Seismic sensors--disguised as tropical plants and animal droppings--detect ground vibrations caused by human movement. The information from both types of sensors is relayed to the central computer in Thailand, where it is used to determine bombing targets. (Although "people sniffers...
Catch-22. Irving had built a Catch-22 into his arrangements with the publishers: they could not meet Hughes, he said, because Hughes might bolt if there were the slightest publicity. Meantime, Irving produced nine documents purportedly from Hughes, including a nine-page letter in longhand to McGraw-Hill. Eventually McGraw-Hill hired a respected New York firm of handwriting analysts, Osborn Associates, to check the Hughes handwriting against samples of his writing dating back to 1936. Said Osborn: "The evidence that all of the writing submitted was done by the one individual is, in our opinion, irresistible, unanswerable...