Word: logs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lonqest Logger. During most of the year, the boob tube is left to what Princeton calls "the viz squad. At the University of North Carolina they are "tubeholics," at Ohio State "TV majors " But the pros by any other nam are still the pros, and they log daily hours in front of TV that would make a union man scream for overtime pay; The leading contender for academe s top tubeman is the University of Texas Saleh Abdulrahman Athel, a studei from Saudi Arabia who started watching to learn English, then just stayed and stayed and stayed...
Effects of the strike will linger for weeks. When the I.L.A. struck for 34 days two years ago, it took a month to clear up the log jam of freight in New York. This time, said port officials, the pile-up is so much bigger-dozens of ships, unable to find berth space, have been anchored in the harbor-that eight weeks may be required to clear it away...
...hour when a man can first discern the shadows of the veins on the back of his hand, the monks arise. The great temple drum, hanging from its roughhewn log rack, summons the faithful to alms. Twisting a single saffron shift round their bodies, the monks move out into the quiet streets in single file, eyes to the ground, fingers clasped beneath their silver begging bowls. In Laos, the bonzes form a silent silhouette against the ornate temple roofs of the royal capital of Luangprabang. In Burma, they enter Rangoon framed against the great Shwe Dagon pagoda, its massive gilded...
...Dear Sir." The nation's best-known football foundry is a Johnny-come-lately to the game. The University of Notre Dame was barely out of the log-cabin stage when Rutgers and Princeton played the first intercollegiate football game in 1869. The Fighting Irish had a school cheer in 1879 ("Rah, rah! Nostra Domina"), but they did not have a team to cheer for until 1887?eight years after the famed Golden Dome of Our Lady first cast its glint across the Indiana plains. It wasn't much of a team at that; in two years, Notre Dame lost...
Will the weight of envious mediocrities and malevolent mischance bring Stamper down, or will he be able to float his log booms down the river in time to meet his contract? The question sounds like rank melodrama, but it is not; Author Kesey's novel is big and clumsy, but its questions matter very much...