Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Menard prison's eight-page, tabloid-size monthly newspaper is one of the best of some 200 publications produced by and for convicts. As a whole, they make for one of the more captivating aspects of the nation's press. They vary widely in style, from muddy mimeographs to a glossy, three-color quarterly, like the Atlantian at the U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta. Their circulation can be impressive: the biweekly press run of the San Quentin News is 10,000 copies, 1,481 of which go by mail to paid subscribers, including Actor Jack Palance and Society Columnist...
...three weeks, and showed consistent drops in their circulating cholesterol-a clue as to whether the system is being overloaded with fat. Patients with atherosclerosis-some with diabetes or high blood pressure, and some who had already had heart attacks-were kept on the diet for as long as eight months, usually with home cooking. In every case their abnormally high cholesterol levels showed a gratifying drop...
Electronic Future. Scherchen is as famed for stinginess as for temperament: friends joke that he planned the birth of his four younger children in England (he has a total of eight children by three wives) to take advantage of the National Health Service. One of Scherchen's passions away from the podium is experimenting with "everything that conserves sound"; at his home at Gravesano, Switzerland, he has built what he regards as "the most advanced electracoustically experimental studios in the world." Recently he has developed a "stereophoner," an electronic device that gives the illusion of stereophonic sound to monaural...
Their silk saris shimmering under the brilliant klieg lights, the shapely dancers swayed around the gaudy temple door. "Cut!" barked the director again and again. In a torrid Bombay movie studio one day last week, the simple, three-minute sequence was reshot eight times. But for the girls, it was worth every minute of a ten-hour day. Like such cinemorsels as Top Star Madhubala and a few other lucky ones, any one of the lowly dancing girls may suddenly grow rajah-rich in the third biggest-and zani-est-movie industry on earth...
...Grammar school run for eight years rather than seven...