Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rosenberg, who directed much of the TV series "The Defenders," shows us how his untamed man operates in some unlikely ideological battlegrounds: a Saturday afternoon boxing match, a poker game, and an egg-eating contest...
...background, pulsating egg yokes and mustard stains move about in the gloom. Berry jiggles the guitar on his hip and wades into the microphone. An epitaph flashes onto his ancient face, "Pyrex--Made in U.S.A...
...booming baritone that, on his five bestselling albums, sounds vaguely like, well, a fellow hollering down a drainpipe. On the state-fair cir cuit, he harvests $25,000 for an appearance in which he tells a few jokes ("The tornado was so bad a hen laid the same egg twice") and does songs (She Was a T-Bone Talking Woman but She Had a Hot-Dog Heart}. In Las Vegas, he sings "You load 16 tons and what do you get? A hernia." That's good for $40,000 a week...
...University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business ('56) and landed a $4,000-a-year job at the prestigious investment-banking house of Lehman Bros. In four years of shrewd stock trading ("I used every trick"), he managed to turn his own $2,500 nest egg into nearly $1,000,000. Then he launched out as an underwriter...
Diving directly into the planet's dense, murky atmosphere, Russia's 2,427-lb. Venus 4 ejected an egg-shaped, instrument-crammed capsule. Although the mother ship was quickly incinerated by the frictional heat of its plunge, the capsule was insulated by an ablative coating that gradually burned off as it heated. At an altitude of 15.5 miles, when its velocity had been sufficiently slowed by Venusian "air" resistance, the capsule automatically deployed a parachute and began drifting slowly toward the surface. As it descended through the whirling gases, the capsule sniffed them, noted their composition, temperature...