Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jazz, which every few years is pronounced dead and then somehow revives, has really begun to develop fatal symptoms lately. Its traditional styles are suffering from hardening of the arteries, its avant-garde is in the grip of a frenzied obscurity, and its fever chart at the box office is down, down, down. But now, just as the mourning is starting in earnest, jazz is getting a vital transfusion from the people who seemed to be helping to dig its grave-the rock 'n' rollers...
Chapter II. So it came to pass that the damsel with the violin was engaged by the lord to help manage his affairs. As a reward, he often took "Bambi," as he fondly called her, to concerts, sitting with her in the stalls while Marion pined in the box. In private, the lord's nights with Bambi grew bolder, and the day eventually came when she told him that she was bearing his child...
...this month, the total North American box-office gross is 35 million dollies-I mean dollars...
Pennies for Progress. Designed and built by TRW systems, each OGO is a refrigerator-size box with 14 simultaneously operating instruments pointing in five directions. To maintain the proper altitude for the instruments, the core contains sensors and controls that are used to stabilize the craft. One face al ways points toward earth, another toward the sun, another away from the earth, one away from the sun, and a fifth in the direction the OGO travels. When two 20-ft. instrument booms and two solar panels are fully extended, the OGOs are 49 ft. long and almost 20 ft. wide...
...aeolian harp dates back to Greek mythology. It was a box-shaped musical instrument with stretched strings through which Aeolus, the god of wind, blew dulcet tones...