Word: cup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played the violin. This is the sort of thing that makes it really worthwhile." The coffee house atmosphere is one of civilization, Yarrow finds. The Cafe Mozart would seem to be his attempt to prove that the moment of truth can be found in good company and over a cup of fine coffee...
...will also find themselves acting as ground crews for a whole series of projectile-spewing toys. Ideal Toy Corp. is ready for the Space Age with a truck-mounted satellite launcher ($4.98) and a skysweeper ($7.98) that throws a plane's image onto a wall, then fires suction-cup projectiles at it. Gilbert's train sets have a rocket launcher car ($10.29) that shoots a missile from the tracks, and Kusan-Auburn Inc.'s six-car atomic train ($39.95) automatically unleashes two missiles while the train is in motion...
Eloise observes the French scene with a sharp eye that would have done credit to Voltaire or Art Buchwald. She is always eager to share her discoveries, whether it is the excellent advice that "you cawn't cawn't cawn't get a good cup of tea so you have to have champagne" or the poignant historical observation that "there are absolutely no kings in France." accompanied by a shattering picture of this child Jacobin dancing her version of the carmagnole in Versailles' Hall of Mirrors. With near-genius she manages to use Paris...
...While Australia's Ashley Cooper was whipping his countryman, Neale Fraser, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, for the New South Wales singles championship, touring U.S. tennists made the most of their unexpected freedom. All had long since been eliminated from the tournament, so Davis Cup Captain Bill Talbert turned his men to for some intensive practice. There is only one short month to go before they try to recapture the big silver punch bowl -too little time for Bill Talbert's talent-starved team...
...team crown went to Michigan State, with 86 points. The Spartans' second straight victory, and fifth in the past 10 years, retired the championship cup. Cornell, paced by Dave Eckel, who finished sixth, and Mike Midler, fourteenth, recorded 125 points for fourth place. Yale was the next Ivy finisher, with 336 points for eleventh place...