Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a fighting spirit it maintained until the waning moments of the game. Harvard started scrambling frenetically for loose pucks, checked with gusto, and even got into about five fist fights. One of them was a wild melee in the second period which sent four players to the penalty box...
Cassius Clay? Not this time. California's Governor Pat Brown, 60, was sicking his doggerel on New York's Nelson Rockefeller, 57, betting him "one box of assorted fresh California fruit" that the San Diego Chargers would whip the Bills for the American Football League championship. Nelson, stout feller, staked a crate of New York State apples on it, and after some musing wrote Brown...
...Simple, modest and dignified-those were the words I had to go on," Johnson said. His scheme, after six months of study, was indeed simplicity itself. On a one-acre lot still to be cleared, he proposed erecting an open box with narrow openings at either end, "like a pair of magnets about to clamp together but held apart by some powerful force." Material for the 50-ft.-sq., 30-ft.-high sanctuary will be unadorned concrete-"the material...
Millions of American housewives daily stop in front of a supermarket shelf and pick up a bar of Ivory soap, a box of Tide or Cheer, a package of Duncan Hines Cake Mix, a bottle of Clorox or Mr. Clean. For the maker of all these products, the Procter & Gamble Co. of Cincinnati, the pickings add up to sales of more than $2 billion a year and profits that reached $133.2 million in the fiscal year ended last June. P. & G. dwarfs its closest rivals, Colgate-Palmolive Co. (1964 sales: $806.6 million) and Lever Bros. Co. ($436.4 million...
...multiversity includes a degree of chauvinism: the Berkeley application asks how long one has been a resident of California. (For that matter, the first page features a huge grid in which one is supposed to summarize one's attendance at the University of California; later one discovers a smaller box for attendance at other universities.) Although Harvard may feel unduly proud of the internationalism implied in the directive that "the enclosed application should be completed in English," one should point out another type of broad-mindedness: the application asks one to list "secondary and preparatory schools...