Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUBJECT WAS ROSES. The film adaptation of Frank D. Gilroy's play about familial agony in The Bronx is brought to life by the honest, homely acting of Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen...
...ranking British golf pro, took a slow boat to Houston last year for the Ryder Cup matches rather than fly, thereby eliminating himself from several tournaments that took place while he was at sea, including the one with the richest first prize of all, the $55,000 Alcan. Singer Jack Landron passed up a free junket to Finland, which he won on TV's Dating Game, because he refused to fly. While designing the capital city of Brasilia, Architect Oscar Niemeyer regularly drove the 575 miles overland from Rio de Janeiro rather than take a1½-hour flight...
...Jack R. Edwalt, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, also finds that other anxieties contribute to the fear of flying. "Trouble with the boss, an impending tax struggle, problems with a new product-the airplane can aggravate these." Often, too, there is simply "mistrust of the gadget." Polaroid's manager of community relations, Bob Palmer, who cheerfully admits, "I get tanked up while the airplane does," agrees. "It's really a hatred of being dependent on something mechanical," he says. Then too, executives who feel that they must always be in command may be bothered...
...style of round dots that bounced gaily about on a field of contrasting color in carefully coordinated and nonrepeating rhythms. Next, he began to add elliptical dots to the round ones in order to orchestrate his scores with anywhere from two to nine different colors. East India Jack, a sprightly hornpipe, plays off three sprays of round green dots against four of elliptical blue dots and a spattering of purple ones...
...Fight. Few radio men gave the series much of a chance. They obviously failed to consider all the fans who jaw endlessly about sports in taverns and barbershops. Newspapers ran fanciful accounts of the fights; Las Vegas posted weekly odds. For the final championship fight between Rocky Marciano and Jack Dempsey, an audience of 16.5 million listened over 380 stations as the Rock loosed "a brutal shot to the heart, a slamming left and right to the jaw," and dropped the bloodied Manassa Mauler for the count in two minutes and 28 seconds of the 13th round...