Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grapes, with seeds, in 52 sec. to crush the old mark of 65 sec. Allan Greenberg, 22, twirled a record album on his forefinger for 5 hr. Bruce Stewart and Robert Argust slapped each other's faces for 31 hr. to top the old record by one hour. Frank Dolce blew 116 smoke rings on one drag to break the old high...
...United Press International transmitted all of the estimated 350,000 words. Both carried it (at 1,050 words a minute) on highspeed wires normally used for stock quotations. For clients without high-speed facilities, U.P.I, also cleared one of its regular-speed wires; clacking away 3,500 words an hour, the transmission lasted from Wednesday morning until Saturday afternoon. Says U.P.I. Night Editor Jeff Grigsby: "We've heard that at least 25 newspapers intend to carry the transcript in its entirety...
Early TV laurels went to CBS, which on Wednesday devoted most of its 60-minute Morning News and an hour-long special that night to the transcripts. In both broadcasts the network made remarkable use of clips from the Watergate hearings and past presidential speeches. Viewers were treated to videotapes of the President and H.R. Haldeman last summer denying that "hush money" had been authorized for Watergate defendants and videotapes of John Dean testifying to the contrary before the Ervin committee last June. Then Dan Rather read a Nixon remark to Dean from the transcripts: "Just looking at the immediate...
...credit cards will rise 33%, to $20. On the blue-collar front, 12,000 West Coast members of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union saluted the end of controls by walking off their jobs for one day. Two years ago, the COLC knocked 300 an hour off the wage increase that the union had negotiated. The dockers now are bargaining to get that 300 and more...
Wisconsin had the better time in the morning heat by four seconds, and even though the two heats were half an hour apart, and even though conditions can and do change dramatically in that amount of time, the Crimson crew was properly scared...