Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college reopened Monday morning after a long Christmas holiday, there were a few minor scuffles and fist fights. Police arrested two pickets who went onto the campus and attempted to intimidate students with blowhorns. Most of the 18,000 students and regular faculty went through the noisy picket line...
...nights later, Harvard faced the only team on the trip the players felt had better personnel--San Jose State. The Spartans started a 6-10, 6-7, 6-5 front line which eventually wore down the under-manned Crimson...
...Jose came down the floor and passed the ball to its 6-7 sophomore star, a great leaper named Darnell Hillman. Hillman took the pass and then four steps from the foul line to the baseline before putting the ball either on the floor or in the air. Coach Harrison stormed the length of the bench to protest but Hillman's jump shot was counted and the Crimson momentum was gone...
...service, called Dynabank, is a form of computer time sharing that ties smaller banks into a large IBM storehouse of money-management data. By operating a special electric typewriter connected by telephone line to a computer center, a small-town banker can get a printout of information about conditions in distant bond and money markets, as well as economic forecasts for the nation or his region, and other data. If he is thinking of buying bonds, Dynabank will quote prices and yields of issues. If he wants to sell, the computer can tell him the market value...
...that it can then be expanded to produce the illusion of large-scale operations. Another nice trick is one pair of panels at stage center that slide open to reveal a Chinese opium den, and still another pair that revolve to present canted mirrors, giving the tiny chorus line something of that old Busby Berkeley thundering herd effect...