Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sever Hall, already renowned for another architectural idiosyncrasy--the whispering arch. The glorious wooden bannisters in Sever's concourse are the slickest and longest at Harvard, and any student sophomoric enough to slide down between classes will surely make a bang, even if he or she doesn't crash through the glass doors. Matthews Hall and the Science Center have challenging and steep bannisters that should test the mettle of any slider who looks over the edge to the chasm below...
Died. John Merriman, 50, who joined CBS News in 1942 as a page, later worked as a writer, reporter and, since 1966, as news editor for the Walter Cronkite evening news show, in the crash of an Eastern Airlines jet; in Charlotte, N.C. During his career, Merriman produced the award-winning CBS radio broadcast, "The World Tonight," covered the Senate-McCarthy hearings for the network during the 1950s, and two years ago earned an Emmy for his reporting of the Apollo space flights...
...hard to see gambling fever as a killer disease in a sick society when Gould's caricature is at work. He's riding on a great big California high, living in a house where there's no sense of time, where breakfast is Froot Loops and beer, where people "crash" when their "action" cycle runs out, where an aging hooker named Barbara gropes around looking for "The Guide." They're all too exhilirated by the California high to be sordid, and Gould's love of gambling for its own sake undercuts Segal's tortured loser. With these two side...
...which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary lifetime...
...news show is on the air. Even if a film-camera crew can be rushed to the scene, developed and edited film of the story is still more than an hour away. Setting up a conventional live camera and all its lumbering accessories is also slow business. The crash of two elevated trains on Chicago's South Side recently was a perfect example of what directors fear. It occurred shortly after 6 p.m. during the local stations' evening news programs. Yet WBBM-TV was on the air 22 minutes later with live pictures from the crash site, long...