Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reacted. Chancellor Roger Heyns, who had previously won the respect of most students, argued that residents objected to the noise and crowds. He promised in antiseptic prose to "exclude unauthorized persons from the site." One dawn last week, in came policemen and bulldozers. Up went poles for an eight-foot fence. Out went about 75 street people...
Staid during the season and stultifying offseason, Montreux is a natural haven for a genius with billowing dreams and a narrowing future. It is a two-street town, one low and one high, dumped at the foot of one Alp and facing another across Lake Geneva. Beyond the town is Byron's Castle of Chillon, the big tourist attraction of the area...
...style: "For the next five months or so the actors jockey for position in front of the submarine latrine, while a second camera keeps us informed of the submarine's depth." Still, Zebra get too much play in the issue (perhaps a wise MGM organized a theatre party foot the lads) and a funnier review by a knowledgeable colleague appeared in the pages of the very publication you now hold in your very hands...
...discus is the only weight event in which Yale will be a threat. Its top man in the event, Tom Neville, has thrown the platter past the 170-foot mark this season, further than any Crimson thrower. Harvard captain Dick Benka, however, edged Neville for second place in the Heps with a throw of 169 ft. 1 in., barely a foot shy of Neville's best career throw...
Like many fires in Alaska, however, this 20,000-acre blaze proved to be unspectacular. It smoldered in the foot-deep carpet of moss above the permafrost, slowly charring the sparse timber as it advanced. To contain this fire, helicopters would ferry the men to points along the perimeter, where the crew would hack trenches out of the moss and fell the trees for 20 feet on either side to prevent burning limbs from dropping across the fire line...