Word: channelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somewhere in Boston today, someone will open his newspaper and see "Wrestling" scheduled to be televised over Channel 38. His mind swimming with visions of Haystack Calhoun and the Masked Manler, he will turn on his set and see Harvard's Howie Henjyoji, all 123 pounds of him, stalking to the center of the mat. The fan will switch off his set, muttering to himself "What kind of wrestling is that, anyhow...
Also at the Paramout is a curious featurette "The Wandering Wind" about a chaotic hot-air balloon race across the Catalina Channel. After much colorful preparation, gay music, and chatty reportage we see a stiff wind carry the only female contestant's balloon out to sea through a cotton candy cloud. A drab black and white newsreel, clipped on at the end, shows a rescue boat recovering her drowned body...
...Federal Government has long provided specialized services-from chicken inspectors to channel buoys-for U.S. businessmen. As boss of the nation's biggest business, President Johnson insisted last week that the Government be paid more for such services. The budget he sent to Congress proposes new or increased "user" taxes that, if approved completely, would realize another $600 million for the Government. Some of the proposals, however, date back to Harry Truman's day, and even a tame Congress may considerably whittle down Johnson's requests...
Finally, and most importantly, student government must provide a channel through which students can express their grievances. For instance, about the ice cream. It doesn't tell you anything in "Studies in the Freshman year" about the ice cream; all it says is "general education ... is used to indicate that part of a student's whole education which looks first of all to his life as a responsible human being and citizen...
...class marshals constitute the main part of the Class Committee. They help plan commencement and lead their class at the graduation exercises. Marshals also serve as the main channel of communication between the Alumni Association and their class and help in reunion and fund-raising activities...