Word: craning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inducement of dreams and deflation of hopes. From the week preceding registration until the day study cards are due, the third floor of the Coop, where course books are neatly stacked on endless rows of shelves, is mobbed with armies of frantic students shoving, chattering, and groaning as they crane their necks and screw their eyes for a glimpse of the books required for various courses...
CAROLINE M. CRANE Providence...
...RANDOM WALK IN SCIENCE Compiled by R.L. WEBER 206 pages. Illustrated. Crane, Russak...
Geraway renewed his fight for vindication in 1969, when he heard that Crane, Inker & Oteri, the Boston law firm that represented him at his original trial, had also been counsel to five of the prosecution witnesses on different matters. That possible conflict of interest seemed to be a ground for reversal. Though he eventually approached 14 different attorneys, most were reluctant to take the case. Two lawyers who were willing had to be paid a fee-an impossibility for Geraway, formerly a part-time laborer and full-time criminal with 32 felony convictions, most for passing bad checks. Then...
...releases, Dynamic House/Tele House works exclusively with recycled masters from conventional labels. In its two years of existence, it has released 15 packages, 13 of which have been certified as gold records for million-dollar-plus sales. Dynamic's founder and president, high-voltage ex-Adman Larry Crane, 37, relies heavily on the current nostalgia vogue and on the existence of a large public that does not frequent record shops. "Anybody willing to write away for a record and wait four to six weeks to get it," he observes, "is not an average record customer." Along with Columbia House...