Word: frye
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...keynote speech of the "Gateways to Knowledge" conference, Billy E. Frye said that in the future, libraries everywhere will be able to share and dispense information...
...Frye said that, in an age of limited college resources, "the strength of libraries cannot be maintained through traditional strategies." For example, he said it would be nearly impossible for an academic library to keep pace with the "almost exponential growth" of periodicals, which, he said, had increased in price 400 percent since...
...just one thing to his new neighbors: he must be a burglar. So as the local sheriff (Dabney Coleman) besieges Andrew's house, AMOS & ANDREW form an alliance, at first mutually suspicious, then mutually instructive, aimed at getting them both back to the mainland unscathed. Writer-director E. Max Frye doesn't quite know how to end his comedy, but his actors know how to play it. The result is energetic, affable, occasionally shrewd social satire...
...Frye had worked in the mine only since the previous October, when he was called back to work after a long layoff. He was a quiet man who enjoyed squirrel hunting and had a 12-year-old son and a 17-year-old daughter. A few weeks before he was killed, Frye told his wife Gail about a close call he had at the mine. "It was like he knew when something was going to happen," says Gail. "I'd ask him, 'Don't that scare you? How can you go back in there?' He'd say, 'You just...
...first to reach the accident scene was inspector Massey. For nearly half an hour he tried to resuscitate Frye, but it was too late. Frye had been crushed by a 9-ft. slab of rock. His fellow miners took up a collection, which was matched by the mining company, and gave Frye's widow $4,000 for burial expenses. At the foot of the grave in Forest Lawn Cemetery is a marker that reads WE LOVE YOU DAD. His widow worries about her son, who can barely bring himself to talk about the loss. For now, young Michael shows little...