Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Telemeter-man Fitzgibbons figures that, with 3,000 installations already guaranteed, he needs only another 4,000 sets in Etobicoke to break even, hopes eventually to snare most of Toronto's 356,000 TV receivers for Telemeter. If Telemeter scores a Canadian success, Paramount may then take another crack at the U.S. market and its estimated 50 million TV sets...
...international and local building-trades unions to a meeting to discuss dropping the color bar; only three showed up. Then it called a separate huddle with the leaders of Local 26; none showed up. Later, Nixon personally wrote a note to I.B.E.W. International President Gordon Freeman, admonished him to crack down on Local 26. Freeman did not answer...
Before a race he clumps up and down the course, a fireplug figure with eyes of icy blue looking for the crack or bump that could cost a precious hundredth of a second. On the Cortina run last month, Monti won his fourth straight two-man world title by teaming with Brakeman Renzo Alvera (who ekes out a living sweeping the local rink). In the four-man competition, Monti was back in third place on the final day when he laconically informed his crew that he was going for broke. Rocketing with controlled fury down the icy run, Monti gave...
...Negroes in America?" Since then, Randolph has been working round the clock to show him who. He is busily whipping together the "Negro American Labor Council," which aims to embrace the 1,500,000 Negro members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. With such numbers, Randolph could press to crack open the all-white locals (in the building trades, among papermakers, boilermakers, etc.), get Negroes into apprentice training programs now closed to them, and lift Negroes to loftier positions in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. command. Chapters of Randolph's all-Negro group are abuilding from New York to the Pacific Coast. Despite...
Hairy Feeling. At 30,000 ft. a sharp crack rang through the ship, shaking it violently. The water pressure outside was 6,000 tons per sq. in., and even a slight fracture in the hull would have meant certain death. It proved to be only an outer Plexiglas windowpane which had splintered under the pressure. The inner hull remained watertight. "A pretty hairy, experience," admitted Walsh...