Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truck and squeezed into a small gondola that was strung from a huge plastic balloon. Harnessed on his back was an elaborate instrument kit (14-channel tape recorder for voice, heartbeat and respiration rates, time blips, temperature, etc.). On his left wrist were a rear-view mirror, a small box with built-in altimeter and stopwatch, and a survival knife and scabbard. To one leg was strapped a tiny receiver-transmitter radio, and on his back were two parachutes and an alternate oxygen system...
Harvard's new Director of Sports Information, Baaron Pittenger, endeared himself forever to Stadium press box inhabitants at half-time in the season's first encounter, when he distributed menus giving the writers a choice of six delicacies for their mid-game snack. Instead of the legendary soggy doughnuts, the sportswriters now had their pick of pizza, ham and cheese, and four other selections. This thoroughness in the relatively unimportant area of refreshments reflects the diligence with which Pittenger has attacked the monstrous problem of press relations and dispensation of information...
Pittenger improved the rest of the press box facilities until the services rendered "were as good as we could make them as far as speed and accuracy." There were changes "designed to make the place a little more homey--but on a rainy day, you're still going to get wet in our press box," Pittenger says. "Now that we've got it homey, we want...
Washed Up. In Los Angeles, Isabel Hernandez, 63, burned up because commuters waiting for buses dropped cigarette butts, papers and other refuse on her front lawn, boarded a bus with her garden hose, doused driver, passengers, seats and coin box...
Pillow Talk. Flighty feathers fluttering around Hollywood's 1958-59 Box Office Champs Rock Hudson and Doris Day, with almost all the flurry caused by top-notch Comic Tony Randall...