Word: eights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight-point spurt by Yale in the closing four minutes enabled the Elis to take a 76-70 victory over Harvard's varsity basketball team in a close Ivy League game last night...
...remaining, Gallagher tied the game for the fourth time on two free throws. Again, the Crimson could not get the go-ahead hoop, and after Peters scored for the Elis, Yale began to stall effectively. Harvard was forced to make mistakes and commit fouls, and the Big Blue netted eight consecutive points to assure victory...
...What kind of tale can possibly evolve from such a gallimaufry of trivia? A dreamer on a park bench, a dim-witted bird fancier, a dead cat, an eight-year-old boy, a picture dealer, a handful of pigeons and an insurance agent-hardly the cast of War and Peace, I must agree." So speaks the witty but slightly (?) deranged narrator, park-bench dreamer, master painter and hero (?) of this fantastical and compelling first novel. The unlikely tale that does evolve draws the unwitting narrator into a plot to palm off one of his works as a Leonardo da Vinci...
...this is what keeps the ritual of the road alive--productions can be saved, or almost saved, on the road. An "almost saved" show is one that looks like an embarrassing flop on the road, but, through revisions, opens in New York to enough praise to keep it running eight or nine months. (Examples: the Julie Harris musical Skyscraper and last season's The Happy Time...
...cutting power became clear in the next four years. While court cases dragged on for months and forced only minimal concessions from Southern school districts, Johnson's HEW got quick results when it applied the financial pincers. By 1968, the mere threat of cutting funds was enough to convince eight previously-recalcitrant districts to desegregate...