Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next great tennis argument and they should be years settling it. Each man likes the other about as much as a foot fault at match point, and the promise of tennis with extra spice brought the former King of Greece and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to the royal box. McEnroe looked up and thought to himself that Thatcher's presence was appropriate: "Two conservative guys playing." He won their semifinal in three straight and serene sets. Subsequently, the improbable Lewis beat Curren in a thrilling five-setter and gave thought to an upset of McEnroe...
...private pilot, just like George, and is named-you guessed it-George Kennedy. Avon books has run off 185,000 paperback copies and the film rights have already been snapped up. As for the plot, well, the book jacket copy says it all: "Lights! Camera! Murder! The picture had box-office bucks written all over it. Top talent, a big budget and a great script. Until someone on the set started changing the story line to murder. " Maybe it will all lead to a sequel, say, a psychological thriller about an actor-pilot-writer who while playing himself becomes...
...problems of inventory control in a small business, the Tramp stands at the intersection of two assembly lines in a bakery. He comes a cropper when the fast-moving line spews cakes onto the floor after he tries to jam a giant-size one into an economy-size box. Taping the sequence required 30 takes-and 150 layer cakes...
...mystery lay above the engine room in the Cloud's cargo hold, where 5,000 wooden boxes labeled TNT were stored. Each box contained two 122-mm shells, a caliber used exclusively in Soviet-manufactured field guns and howitzers. The Venezuelans determined that the crew had probably thought it could not control the fire, and that the ammunition was about to blow the ship to pieces. Said Captain León: "They were on a floating bomb...
...keeping the door open in the talks on nuclear arms limitation. Last month Andropov had given that message to former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Averell Harriman, and last week Soviet television allowed Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam to make a rare pitch for the U.S. view (see box). Said a veteran U.S. diplomat who has been holding talks in Moscow on nuclear nonproliferation: "Once we find common ground, it's remarkably easy to talk...