Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"We've got to beat the Celtics at their own game," said San Francisco Coach Alex Hannum. The Warriors retaliated enthusiastically, won the third game 115-91. The referees were blowing their whistles like riot cops. But big-time basketball is both hard-nosed and tricky, and the refs...
The citizen who has just been mugged on Staten Island in New York City is likely to get a second unpleasant surprise. If he still has a dime and dials the officially listed police number, ST (for Saint George) 7-1200, he will get a business firm in Manhattan. The...
Two-Hour Delay. Typifying the U.S. problem of slow police service, New York City has five boroughs with five separate police numbers that seem to endlessly confuse callers. The police department is now struggling to devise a system whereby a single "hot line" central number would automatically summon the cops...
A male dancer reaches into a movie screen for his ballerina and performs a perfect pas de deux with her projected image. A pianist plays onstage accompanied by seven movie versions of himself, playing different instruments. A roller skater, chasing four girls who have boarded a bus, rolls downhill on...
Leashes, Anyone? At the noon starting gun the temperature was in the 30s, and a 20-m.p.h. head wind pelted the marathoners with sleet. Water seeped through the soles of their thin racing shoes. Here and there, an angry dog snapped at a runner's ankles, although an A.S.P.C.A...