Word: interrupters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither of its opponents this week--Princeton and Yale--figures to be a threat to Harvard's seven-game winning streak, but one could interrupt its improvement by turning the contests into slip-shod affairs...
...bizarre idea for peeling sheep occurred to Geneticist Clair E. Terrill while he was studying the results of experiments with anti-cancer drugs. In tended to halt the growth of cells in malignant tumors, the drugs were also found to interrupt cell growth in the hair roots of test animals - including sheep - causing them to lose their hair temporarily...
...with more success. And at a rally last week, Nixon made the best of a sticky situation by giving opponents an opportunity to criticize without heckling. He allowed 1,200 Syracuse University students to sing a ballad to counter his campaign, and even silenced his supporters who tried to interrupt them. The song the students chose was Simon and Garfunkel's The Sounds of Silence, a theme that has hardly marked the 1968 campaign...
Glamour, image and sex appeal are not his bag. At a rehearsal, he is one plain musician talking to others. He may interrupt the music to say, "Take some of that color out of the A flat," or "Make this more crescendo." But he never indulges in exhibitionism or talkfests, which often earn other conductors only the scorn of their players. At a concert, he makes few flourishes in the direction of the audience. "I have no patience," he says, "with those conductors who, though their backs are physically turned to the spectators, spiritually face the ticketholders in an expressionist...
...isle of Bnoni in the Adriatic, Tito got into a shouting match with Soviet Ambassador Ivan Benediktov. "Lies! Lies!" cried Tito, as the Soviet diplomat read a note from Moscow giving the Soviet version of events in Czechoslovakia. "You cannot talk that way," the Russian remonstrated. "Don't interrupt me!" shouted Tito...