Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur rushes the new Multiplex Video receiver. He ducks his shoulder and catches it just under the knobs with a crunching body check. Both Arthur and the Multiplex crash into the wall, breaking through the sheet rock, snapping two studs, and bringing down a piece of the ceiling. Arthur is out cold. The set is out of commission. The big eye is dead. But Hugo Gernsback is already back at the drawing board...
...Harvard senior probably won't be in the lineup today. Lou Williams, top player on the unbeaten freshman team three years ago, number two man on this year's squad, still is not back in shape after a wrist injury suffered in a car crash several weeks...
...those meals that look funny in the movies. The family of four got a table in the U.N. Delegates' Dining Room-and here came the waitress, all snarls, and spilled soup. Crash! Down slammed the food. Zip! It was whisked away before anyone was finished. "And how was the meal, sir?" asked the manager. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, 45, couldn't help blowing off steam, so much in fact that the waitress was summarily fired. And when her case came up for review, Freeman reluctantly confirmed his complaint. She was "very cross, curt and sullen," he wrote...
...Congress has just authorized construction grants and loans of $400 million a year for three years, college building will still fall $300 million short of minimum annual needs. Odds are that most colleges will muddle through in the end. But unless they plan faster and better, warns E.F.L., tardy crash programs may produce not modern mansions of learning, but "misplaced academic slums, a drain both educationally and economically on future generations...
...were a carillon's keyboard or a finely tuned set of 88 drums. The array of sounds he divines from his Baldwin grand are beyond the reach of academic pianists; he caresses a note with the tremble of a bejeweled finger, then stomps it into its grave with a crash of elbow and forearm aimed with astonishing accuracy at a chromatic tone cluster an octave long...