Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ceremony over, Johnson and his new Postmaster General repaired inside to munch cheese sliced on an oldfashioned counter top and pose for pictures beside the tiny, 60-box post office...
...bulletproof glass. Behind the sandbags and peering through the window, Air Force Major General James Humphreys was all set to start a long-distance operation. With a scalpel attached to a 6-ft. pole, and a pair of pincers that looked like the gadget used to pluck a cereal box off the top shelf of a grocery store, Surgeon Humphreys was going to reach through the opening in the wall and remove an ostrich-egg-sized lump from the back of a Vietnamese farmer...
...single wing, in which the center passes the ball directly to the deep backs rather than handing it to the quarterback as in the T formation. A reluctant innovator, Coach Dick Colman has dressed up his offense with fancy shifts (into the I formation and the Notre Dame box), pass-run option plays and the like-all of which scare him as much as they do his opponents. "We're playing awfully dangerous ball," he shudders. But Princeton's bread-and-butter play is still the old-fashioned single-wing "power sweep," with two linemen pulling...
...only way to lure the Japanese back to the theaters, the industry concluded three years ago, was to show them something they could not see on TV. Titles like Ravines of Desire and Agonies of Newlyweds, publicity teasers about "thrills and terrors in brothel lynching" instantly proved such big box office that eroduction totals have doubled every year since. This year the output will be 120, and their hottest starlet, lusty 18-year-old Takako Uchida, has not been given a day off since last spring. By next year the figure should reach 200, or half the features produced...
Porsche pulls in as much as $10 million a year from the licenses (mostly for its patented synchromesh gear box) that it sells to such automakers as Italy's Ferrari and Germany's BMW. Its closest ties are still with Volkswagen. Besides a royalty of 250 for every Volkswagen that rolls off the assembly line, Porsche reaps from VW an additional research-and-development...