Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAR-SPANGLED GIRL. Two earnest, impoverished and slightly manic intellectuals (Anthony Perkins and Richard Benjamin) are brought to their knees by an All-American girl swimmer (Connie Stevens) who has muscles in her head as well as her arms. While the whip of wit does not crack as in Neil Simon's past hits, he remains an agile jokemaster in the Broadway ring...
...Cleaning. The unwholesome mess that U.S. citizens and corporations spew into that great sewer in the sky costs them dearly-$11 billion a year in property damage alone, according to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Air pollutants abrade, corrode, tarnish, soil, erode, crack, weaken and discolor materials of all varieties. Steel corrodes from two to four times as fast in urban and indus trial regions as in rural areas, where much less sulphur-bearing coal and oil are burned. The erosion of some stone statuary and buildings is also greatly speeded by high concentrations of sulphur oxides...
...STAR-SPANGLED GIRL. Two earnest, impoverished and slightly manic intellectuals (Anthony Perkins and Richard Benjamin) are brought to their knees by an All-American girl swimmer (Connie Stevens) who has muscles in her head as well as her arms. While the whip of wit does not crack as in his past hits, Neil Simon remains an agile jokemaster in the Broadway ring...
Died. Donald Campbell, 45, British speed seeker; in the crack-up of his jet-powered boat; on Coniston Water, England (see SPORT...
...passed Jupiter that it could reach Saturn in only 2.8 years and Uranus in 5.9 years. A flight launched into a proper trajectory on Nov. 1, 1979, would be picked up by Jupiter's gravity and hurled to Neptune - like a skater at the end of a crack-the-whip line - in only 8.1 years. The scientists also discovered that the outer planets would be so fortuitously positioned that a spacecraft launched on Oct. 7, 1978, could actually make a 8.9-year "grand tour," passing close to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in turn and receiving a gravitational boost...