Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Set in Nazi-controlled Slovakia in 1942, this perfectly played Czech masterpiece reduces an awesome tragedy to human size. Its seriocomic hero is a well-meaning Aryan nonentity (Josef Kroner) who seizes the button shop owned by a feeble, trusting old Jewess (Ida Kaminska) and finds himself a partner in her fate...
...theoretically run from the same computer. Lockheed last year concocted plans for a statewide information-retrieval system that would theoretically enable California to keep a Big Brother-like watch on its citizens; with the help of computerized data-storage units in various localities, officials in Sacramento could press a button to check up on local tax collections, highway repairs, personnel needs-eventually perhaps even alimony payments or political contributions. It may seem odd to laymen that space technology can be applied to such earthbound matters, but "systems management," the mastery of computerized complexity, remains the same in principle, whatever...
...general calls out a command. At his side, a "display specialist" punches one button, then another; his fingers race across his varicolored panel filled with the flashing lights of disaster (see oppo site page). An outline map of the North American continent is traced in light across a large screen. Near the top, along the rim of the Arctic Ocean, clusters of lights - signifying hostile missiles - begin to move perceptibly southward...
Sophomore Jeff Grate will replace George Neville in the backcourt, and 6-6 junior Lynn Bennion will start in place of John Scott at forward. The change isn't the result of any panic button pushing by Coach Floyd Wilson; both Grate and Bennion convincingly earned first-string berths last weekend...
Steve Shea led the Harvard epee team to a 7-2 victory, taking three bouts while allowing only five touches. Harry Jergesen clipped Trinity's Ken Button, 5 to 4, and Wilson Kury, 5 to 3. Crimson junior Takashi Iwasawa lost to Button, 5 to 2, but beat Pete Makson by the same score...