Word: leape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with confidence, sometimes with Billie Jean King or Jimmy Connors. In England he lives in the affluent suburb of Virginia Water. His house is a lively jumble. The huge boots he wore as the Pinball Wizard in the movie Tommy stand near a Picasso. Two stuffed leopards are a leap away from three Rembrandt etchings. Says Elton: "All I really crave now is an original Toulouse-Lautrec or a Hieronymus Bosch...
...nightmarish great leap forward, Seymour Wenner, the chief administrative law judge for the rate-making Postal Rate Commission, has come up with a decision that would pile an even huger increase on top of all the others. His announced formula, which touched off alarm bells throughout the world of print journalism last week, is to cut first-class rates from a dime to 8½? and make up for the lost income in part by raising second-class rates yet another 122%. Added to increases already in effect or planned, Wenner's scheme would boost second-class rates...
...instance, which even now reflects galloping paper, production and labor costs, could double and possibly triple. Reason: as prices rise, some subscribers would drop off, and prices would then have to rise again to cover editorial costs and other overhead expenses. Newsweek would perhaps have to make a similar leap, as would such other weeklies as Saturday Review, The New Yorker, New York magazine and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Even monthlies, such as Harper's and Reader's Digest, would have to hit their subscribers with drastic price increases. Religious, labor and farm publications would also be severely hurt...
...with an apology from Alan J. Bozer '75, co-chairman of the Adams House film society, to anyone who might be insulted by the film. Bozer recommended "Birth of a Nation" to the audience as a film classic. "Birth of a Nation," released in 1915, marked a great leap forward for the fledgling film industry, introducing moving cameras, night filming and a musical score. But even at the time it was bitterly criticized (by the NAACP and by President Emeritus Charles William Eliot among others) for its racist content...
Embree, who won the high jump two years ago with a leap of 6 ft., 8 1 2 in., has improved on that height some six inches and is a certain first in the event. Blayne Heckle in the pole vault and Ahmed Kayali in the triple jumps (Vanderpool- Wallace is concerning on the long jump) are other mainstays for the New Englanders...