Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horror to come, Director Alfred Hitchcock goes nattering on with an hour of some silly plot-boiling about a flirtatious society girl (Tippi Hedren), a lovelorn schoolmarm (Suzanne Pleshette), an Oedipus wreck (Rod Taylor) and a pair of lovebirds. Hitchcock addicts will just be getting jittery for their first fix of gore when it suddenly becomes clear that the birds is coming: man's feathered friends set themselves to wipe out an entire village on the California coast...
Worried that Butts's supporters would try to strike back at him by dredging up his own record of arrests for passing bad checks, Burnett hired a lawyer in Atlanta and decided to sell the story to the Post. As soon as "The Story of a College Football Fix" appeared on the newsstands, the FBI, the Governor of Georgia, Senator McClellan and just about everybody else in the football-happy Southeast announced plans to investigate...
...Post piece said that "he wasted $6,000,000 by sulking on the set" of Mutiny on the Bounty. Bear Bryant, who brought a $500,000 action last fall, after the Post accused him of teaching brutal football, says that he will file another suit for the football fix story...
...crowd exploded with a wave of ugly sound that engulfed Addie's voice t was a good thing: the referee's card (eight rounds for Clay, one for Jones one even) was absurd. The chant started in the upper balconies: "Fix! Fix! Fix! Fake! Fake! Fake!" A photographer at ringside was knocked cold by a flying object that creased the back of his skull Peanuts rained onto the ring. Casually, Cassius Clay picked up a handful, cracked the shells, and tossed the nuts into his mouth...
...Copenhagen last week, after only six months in office, Krag faced his supreme political test when he introduced into Parliament a complex series of measures that will 1) extend all union contracts for two years, thus limiting wage increases; 2) fix maximum prices of all consumer goods except fish and farm products; and 3) compel all taxpayers to buy up to $290 in 4% bonds that cannot be redeemed for five years...