Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beaten by amateurs. At the end, two Australian pros, Rod Laver (seeded No. 1) and Tony Roche (No. 15) turned back the amateurs' challenge and fought it out between themselves for the title, with Laver winning 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. But not even that all-pro final could alter the fact that in the main it was Amateur Week at Wimbledon...
Saturday Jungle. While a TV series films an average of ten minutes worth of script in one day, the shooting of a 60-second commercial often takes two or three days and can run through 25,000 ft. of film to get the final, worthy 90 ft. For an ad introducing Mattel Toys' new Bathhouse Brass line, a film crew covered 1,000 miles to shoot in eight different locations. The spot shows a parade of kids cavorting across sand dunes and careering down slides while madly blasting away on their plastic "brassoons," "toobas" and "floogle-horns." A kind...
...expects it to widen into the most comprehensive investigation of the stock exchanges in a generation. The SEC plans to delve into everything from access to the markets by nonmember brokers to the question of whether some exchange rules violate antitrust laws, as the Justice Department contends. Whatever the final outcome, it is already clear that Wall Street faces some fundamental changes in its way of doing business...
...prehistoric Corsicans evidently failed to stop the Shardanes, for many menhir fragments are embedded in the walls of Shardane temples. Still, they made gigantic strides in sculpture. Their earliest attempts (around 1800 B.C.) had simply a head separated from the body by a crude neck; their final works depict arms, hands, and what look like facial traits. Most remarkable of all, they were apparently laboriously carved with round, white quartz tools. Nor is their final reckoning complete; Grosjean discovered altogether 72 carved menhirs, of which 30 were finely sculpted. Says he: "I have only scratched the surface. There is enough...
...Saturday, the losers battle for the third and fourth spots in Sunday's final, which figures to include Harvard, Penn, Vesper, and some other boat. Harvard is the experts' favorite to win the trip to Mexico City...