Word: cones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountains go, Austria's Patscherkofel is not likely to win any beauty contests. A short (7,373 ft.), stumpy cone, it looks for all the world like an inverted Dixie cup. But the Patscherkofel makes up in ruggedness what it lacks in looks. At last week's ninth Winter Olympics, its rocky crags and fir-covered slopes were the site of the men's downhill, the fastest and toughest course ever to test the mettle of the world's finest skiers...
...sound as loud as someone addressing a meeting, which, after all, is what they are doing. Furthermore, for obscure sociological reasons, the cheaper the radio, the louder it is played. And a radio's ability to make the tables and walls it touches vibrate along with the speaker cone often turns a small room into one enormous speaker enclosure...
Almost every U.S. city has on the books a clutter of old, obscure laws that are hardly ever enforced. In Wash ington, D.C., for example, it is illegal to sell an ice-cream cone. A law to that effect was passed by Congress in 1921 and signed by Woodrow Wilson on his last full day in office as President of the U.S. Designed to protect the public against spoilage, the law makes it a mi demeanor to sell ice cream in Washington except in easily iced standard units - half pints, pints, quarts...
Last week the House of Representa tives finally acknowledged modern refrigeration and amended the old ice cream-cone law. The Senate is expected to go along. Crowed Virginia's Republican Congressman Joel T. Broyhill, one of the backers of the bill: "A progressive step." If Congress continues to catch up with the times, it may some day dispense with the District of Columbia's laws that still prohibit driving sheep down Pennsylvania Avenue and forbid winning more than $26.67 in a gambling game...
...became progressively crippled with arthritis, Colette saw her world shrink to the dimensions of the cone of blue light thrown across her bed by an electric bulb shrouded in blue paper. She notices that the voices of the children outside in the Palais-Royal garden are not as loud as they once were. Her constant companion is pain-"pain ever young and active, instigator of astonishment, of anger, imposing its rhythm on me, provoking me to defy it"-but she will not blunt it, for pain, too, can be a boon to one with an "instinct for the game...