Word: kerplunked
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...heavy. "We have one." That one is super-tough Craign Beling, the Crimson's leading tackler last year. But there are two linebacker positions to be filled, and only sophomore Bob Woolway has emerged out of the pack as a solid contender. One injury here and the season goes kerplunk, right down the drain...
...designed rough pyramids made of granite paving stones, over which kids clamber, shrieking as they go. Last week children were lining up to crawl into the stone igloo; once inside, they scrambled up a ladder through a hole in the top and, with a whoop, scooted down a slide kerplunk into a sand...
...there was plenty else to make it boggle, from Barnett Newman's eccentric, hard-edge stripes in his Black Fire to Robert Rauschenberg's Trophy II, a pop art combine in four pieces equipped with a real glass of water on a shelf with a spoon kerplunk in it. The only true portraits, surprisingly, are Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning's Marilyn Monroe and Pop Artist James Rosenquist's Portrait of the Scull Family. Little-known names among the 102 were Australia's Brett Whiteley and a young Indian named Mohan Samant...
Because of an eleventh-hour scramble, last week's opening splash in Hartford went somewhat kerplunk. First program was the movie version of Sunrise at Campobello (viewing price: $1), which has already made the rounds of the country's movie theaters and is well along on its journey from Broadway's Palace to The Late Show. Other first-week films include One-Eyed Jacks, Splendor in the Grass and Breakfast at Tiffany's. But programming should improve. Hartford's pay viewers will get a chance to see Warner Brothers' still unreleased The Music...
...city." He found another in Dwight Eisenhower, who called a primary-eve press conference in Philadelphia to proclaim that success for the alliance would betoken "victory for the Republican Party in Pennsylvania in November, and a resurgence of G.O.P. strength in the big cities throughout the nation." And then- kerplunk! The alliance had put up 29 candidates for major party and public offices against the Meehan-Hamil-ton Philadelphia G.O.P. organization. All 29 alliance candidates lost. Next day Johnson, while retaining his national committeeman's job, resigned from what was left of the Republican alliance...