Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...printers not only balked at a legal contract but continued to resist the new technology. The old plants, for example, featured a button for stopping presses. The Wapping compound has no such device, but the union insisted that three men should be hired to supervise an imaginary button anyway. When talks broke down in late 1984, Murdoch secretly began laying plans to operate Wapping without the printers. The publisher's New York office contacted Atex, a leading U.S. manufacturer of newspaper computers, and ordered a $10 million system. The equipment was shipped in unmarked boxes to London, where a dozen...
...feature Spanish-language controls and instructions. Others have oversize knobs and large-type instructions for those with poor eyesight. For blind customers, a Braille operating manual and a Braille overlay that easily snaps onto the control panel of the machines are available. All of the machines are simple push-button models with no fancy electronic controls...
...hair of his stick figure. Then he covers the entire face with hair, tosses the paper aside, and begins again. He appears not to have heard the suggestion about laying his head on the paper and instead draws his head as a large circle with slits for eyes, a button nose and a huge mouth grinning with jack-o'-lantern teeth. He discards that paper as well. Suddenly he is out in the hall, watching Ralphy receive his lecture. He is told to return to the others, and he runs back with strange, jerky movements of his arms and legs...
...says that his helmet will prove to be the salvation of the Harvard student who is so busy that drinking has to be forgone. "I think Harvard people were the first Yuppies," he says. "You have the original Oxford cloth button down shirts...
DIED. Phil Silvers, 73, Emmy Award-winning comedian who after a long career in vaudeville achieved Broadway stardom in High Button Shoes (1947) and Top Banana (1951), appeared in such movies as It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but was best known for his portrayal of Master Sergeant Ernie Bilko, the glib, rascally hero of the 1950s TV series the Phil Silvers Show; in Century City, Calif...