Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...qualifying trials), Andy Granatelli, 44, has dreamed of building a car that would win the Indianapolis 500, the world's richest auto race. In the early '60s, his monstrous (837 h.p.) Novi V-8s hit 200 m.p.h. on the Indy straightaways, but always fell prey to one bug or another. Last year Granatelli came tantalizingly close with his revolutionary, turbine-powered STP Special, driven by Parnelli Jones, which missed winning only because a $6 ball bearing failed with eight miles to go. This May 30, it will take an awful lot of broken bearings to keep Granatelli...
When working on a piece of music, says Roy Harris, "the composer must have hold of something that concerns him above all else. It must bug him, must wake him up at 3 in the morning." What bugged Harris as he was writing his Eleventh Symphony was "the restlessness, apprehension, frustration, anger, hate that permeate our world - the sense that a new era is upon us. It is hard to describe in words...
...classical actor Nicol Williamson to play Lennie, the hulking, simple-minded American farm hand? That seemed a little like casting David Niven as Quasimodo. Well, in short, Williamson was an extraordinary Lennie. Of the trio of Britons who dominated the tube last week, his performance was the most remarkable. Bug-eyed and slackjawed, gangly and gawky, stammering and shuffling, he gave touching insight to his credo, "I got you and you got me." George Segal as George and Will Geer as Candy gave Williamson first-rate support...
...least one thing can be said for the Cambridge city government: it smashes constitutional rights only selectively. The freedom of peaceable assembly that bug eyed suburbanites and teeny boppers use to redress their grievances each weekend in Harvard Square has never caused much of a stir down at City Hall. Even though the weekend gapers stop traffic, dirty the sidewall, cram the Coop, and induce claustrophobia, they obviously have redeeming social--and economic--value. A small circulation magazine that socks it to the powers that be, in the very language those powers use in their back rooms, is another matter...
Such protectionism persists even within Europe's supposedly cozy Common Market. Volkswagen has had lagging sales in Italy ever since that counry imposed a temporary tax that craftily penalized owners of the German bug. France, challenged at home by Italy's burgeoning appliance industry, has tried everything from a deliberate customs slowdown, which piled up thousands of Italian refrigerators at the border, to a formal request, now pending before the Common Market commission, for outright import quotas. The French also forbid the import of walnuts before Sept. 25-by which time the remnants of Italy's early...