Word: calls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them out, they sent them back. You're young, you don't get too discouraged, anyway. I could write, I mean I always wanted to write, so when I was in show business I started writing skits and shorts, and things like that, plays, you know playettes, blackouts, they call blackouts short plays and skits you know...
Shortly after I closed the paper up, about four or five months, I was brooding, doing a lot of brooding over it. One morning I got up and collapsed, choking to death and they had to call a doctor, he analyzed my ailment as asthma at the time. Here I was a professional acrobat, used to run five-six miles in the morning, keep in condition you know. Asthma, me? Yeah. Nerves, he said. Take it easy and relax. I just walked around in a fog for a year and a half after it, the shock of it, you know...
...ODDS for anyone on earth being struck by a meteorite in this century are three in a hundred. On Christmas Eve in 1965 a meteorite exploded over England and dumped 103 pounds of rock on the Midlands town of Barwell. No one was hit, but it was a close call...
...most important thing about computers is something that few of the people who think they aren't directly concerned with computers realize. This is the almost unplumbable truth that the computer is capable of carrying out ANY numerical calculation. And they don't call mathematics the universal language for nothing. Just about everything can be quantified; just about everything can be manipulated by the computer...
...discover the men, as the men discover them--coming in time to love them, understand them, feel their pains and their pleasures. What Harvard and Radcliffe have found out for themselves Yale will now have a chance to learn: that there are many stops on the great highway we call Life, there are many turns, and many detours. Bandits lie in wait to harrass the tardy, pitfalls to ensnare the foolish, and pimps and whores to seduce the virgins...