Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week trial, Nassau County Judge James L. Dowsey Jr. tongue-lashed the two defendants' conduct as "sadistic, barbaric and immoral." But then he shocked educators who view high school hazing as a plague that only the courts can cure. He freed Gannon and Lenti on the ground that the hazing law is not "so explicit that all men subject to its penalties may know what act it is their duty to avoid...
Into the shotput circle at Texas A. & M. University stepped Randy Matson, 20, cupping a 16-lb. steel ball in one huge hand as if it were an egg. Sucking in his breath, he tucked the ball behind his right ear, crouched low, and tapped the ground once, twice, three times with his left toe. Then, with a prodigious grunt that could be heard a full 100 yds. away, he hurled himself across the ring. The shot sailed through the air and bit into the dirt, 67 ft. 11¼ in. away. "That one felt pretty good," sighed Sophomore Matson...
...location is not to be believed: the ground floor of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman at 2 a.m. But outside stands her manager liveried like a footman; so naturally, after she comes whirling in through the door, she plays a newsboy - in white mink knickers. And then she's grabbing all those crazy hats, or vamping around the showcases like Mata Hari, or suddenly taking a Spanish caprice to dance all over Bergdorf's minks. It sounds like Breakfast at Bergdorf's but its real title is My Name Is Barbra, an hourlong, one-girl...
...immediately, told the geologists to keep in daily touch. The company officials who got the news then swore themselves to secrecy. They had trees planted in and around the drill holes to conceal the site, moved the rig to a new location and left a worthless core on the ground to confuse any possible snoopers...
...aircraft building skills that led Saab into manufacturing autos in 1949 have more recently been applied to missiles. The company produces U.S. Falcon air-to-air missiles under license from Hughes Aircraft, is developing coastal defense and ship-to-ship missiles and an advanced air-to-ground missile system that will be installed on the Viggen. Experience gained in designing miniature computers for aircraft enabled Saab to take off in another direction. In the past two years, it has sold Saab-designed commercial computers at prices ranging from $300,000 to $1,000,000, built others...