Word: impromptu
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...Dead." One motorcyclist roared down Main Street with a wine-swilling companion on his shoulders; another stood on the saddle of his speeding motorcycle and drained a bottle. Others spaced beer cans along the street, wove in and out on their cycles in an impromptu slalom race; soon the steeliest of the girls stood beside the cans as markers. An Angels Camp policeman darted into the street to pick up the beer cans, retreated amid hoots and catcalls when a cyclist buzzed him. Other gangs organized drag races, reached 50 m.p.h. from standing starts. Some settled for simple horseplay...
...networks decided last week that soap operas and quiz shows were more important than any live broadcast of Teamster Boss Dave Beck's second big appearance before Senate investigators. Not content with the decision, a dozen stations across the U.S. had the enterprise to form an impromptu network of their own so that one of the year's best running news stories could be heard and seen as it was happening...
...result: the sordid story of Beck's business interests and his own queasy evasions (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) unfolded in living rooms in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, St. Louis, Fresno, Phoenix and Portland as well as Washington and Seattle. Late in the week the impromptu network added three more stations, Baltimore's WAAM, WBAL and WMAR, the second time in the week that these three gave their networks a pointed lesson in public service. One classic network argument against special live news coverage is the heavy cost in sponsored shows that must be canceled. The three Baltimore stations produced...
...takes a special kind of courage on the part of the impromptu social workers who man the camp to win either the confidence or the compliance of these child gangsters. Threatened with a knifing by a Wolf, good, kindly Eric holds out both hands and is viciously slashed, after which the boy throws the knife at Eric's feet and collapses wailing to the ground. What enables the staff to go on is the knowledge that the children have been more sinned against than sinning. There is the little boy who has never been heard to utter a word...
Harvey Pressman of Brandeis University won the impromptu speaking contest. Richard Roberts of Kentucky was ranked the top individual debater in the tournament...