Word: impressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that look as if they were conceived during a tin famine. Engaged to a very U deb (Lynn Redgrave), he is about to meet her very pukka sahib army colonel father (Peter Bull). Also expected is a millionaire art fancier with a notorious avidity for avant-garde junk. To impress the guests, Crawford and Redgrave have carted off the sculptor's jackdaw furniture and replaced it with elegant antiques "borrowed" from the neighboring apartment of an exquisitely gay bachelor (Donald Madden) supposedly away for the weekend...
...housewares manufacturers them selves lost $25 million in merchandise and displays. Some products were prototypes rushed to Chicago to impress the 60,000 buyers who would have wandered through McCormick Place during the five-day show. There were other irreplaceable losses: the pioneer Webcor wire recorder was part of the ashes, and so were six original 1921-model Dormeyer mixers. Still missing were $25,000 worth of diamonds that were to have been prizes...
...charge for sending the body back to Chicago, and a burial service at a cemetery plot next to the graves of his parents. The only real legacy left by the would-be big shot from Big D was one of confusion, futility and frustration-a legacy that would nonetheless impress his name on history...
...higher status, better students and more foundation funds. Moreover, claims Oklahoma City University Law Dean John G. Hervey, a lawyer with a mere LL.B. is outranked by any Ph.D. when it comes to jobs, pay and promotion in teaching and government. Most of Hervey's "evidence" fails to impress skeptics, who point out that law professors are the country's highest paid teachers, whatever their degrees. And what Supreme Court law clerk was ever picked because he had a J.D. rather than an LL.B.? Whether in the armed forces or the Justice Department, say J.D. critics...
...enrolled in these half-year seminars, 80 per cent are super-literate freshmen who pulled the required 700's on both the verbal and math SAT's and 4's or 5's on the CEEB Advance Placement exam in English. The rest are upperclassmen who managed to impress section men with their enthusiasm or need for writing instruction at interviews this fall...