Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home, today's hi-fi addict can buy extra-thin tape capable of cramming eight hours of monaural sound onto one tape reel-all of Beethoven's nine symphonies plus his five piano concertos. For his car he can buy "magic memory" machines designed to fit over the transmission hump and record his dictation en route or music received on the car radio. There are devices on which six people can listen simultaneously to the 1812 Overture on six different earphones at six different volumes; there are "perpetual motion" tape machines that, once started, spew forth repetitious music...
...Texas-born Silliman Evans lived, the morning Nashville Tennessean (circ. 131)79?) was one of the most belligerent newspapers in the South. A hell-for-leather Democrat who left newspapering for a while to work for Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Publisher Evans held that "no Republican is fit to hold public office." He tried his editorial best to see that none did. He also rang the Tennessean like a fire gong, calling attention to corruption and evil wherever he saw it. Cops, ward heelers, city councilmen and even Tennessee's late Political Boss Ed Crump, all bowed...
...repeating at least twice more that he did not want to appoint Frankfurter to the court. Finally, F.D.R. got to the point. "But wherever I turn," he said, "and to whomever I talk that matters to me, I am made to realize that you're the only person fit to succeed Holmes and Cardozo." And so, Roosevelt said, he was going to appoint Frankfurter to the Supreme Court anyway...
...sisters shun the seamy side of Hollywood with Victorian primness. They are less interested in Charlton Heston's love life than in how he kept fit for all those chariot rides in Ben-Hur. "This means a lot to the reader," Reba says...
...craziest production routine in show business. It is written in Hollywood, and scripts are flown to New York, sometimes a page or two at a time-while the production crew waits to find out what happens next. One man spends most of his time looking for locations that fit the scenes, such as a tenement having an open stairwell with wood banisters (for a breakaway fight scene). Another fulltime employee works overtime getting permits from city agencies, businesses and individuals. Exposed film is flown back to Hollywood for developing and editing...