Word: madison
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...track has both improved the team's times and decreased its injuries. In their lifesized dummy of the human leg, aluminum bars substitute for bones, simple springs for muscles and a fluid shock absorber for tendons. When the same surface they designed from their model was put down in Madison Square Garden, records fell and McMahon and Greene found themselves sought after by the unlikely technical journals, Sports Illustrated and The New Yorker, for cover stories...
Cascades of balloons used to be a staple of political functions, back in the days when "party regular" was a title of respect and market research was just a glimmer in some Madison Avenue mind. Convention after convention, speech after speech, they'd release the balloons, each weighted with a drop of water, at the climatic moment. Today, the balloon drop is a dying art form. But for Reagan it looks appropriate; the huge plastic bag, pregnant with balloons, hangs from the ceiling of the Toga Room, waiting to deliver on cue. Nowadays, though, it's hard to find anyone...
Just the night before, though, freshman Darlene Beckford, touted in Sports Illustrated's February 4 "Faces in the Crowd" as "the eighth fastest woman in the world on an indoor track," nobly represented the Crimson at the prestigious Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden in New York...
...lives downstairs. Wanda's brother, an inspector at Chrysler's Jefferson Avenue plant, comes around to help with the house. Many of their fellow Polish Americans have left Hamtramck, having earned enough in union wages at Dodge to afford larger houses in northern suburbs like Warren or Madison Heights -and, of course, a car for commuting...
...Stephen Smale, who demonstrated against the Viet Nam War and is now the father of a draft-age son: "That gives [draft registration] a different character. It's a long way from what happened in the 1960s." Paul Ginsberg, dean of students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, cited another reason for the relative quiet: "The vast majority of students were only 10 or 11 when we last had a draft. They are only vaguely aware that something is about to interrupt their lives...