Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rate is six times that of the rest of the country. Traffic is so congested in the city that when a magazine staged a race between a sedan chair and a sports car, the sedan chair won. Last week, after a 2½-year study, the Tories announced a mammoth project to be started within ten years and designed to ease the strangulating conditions in southeast England...
...bench they were sitting on is actually six big cubes, which now tilt forward to show a mammoth piano keyboard painted on their sides. The umbrellas pick out a waltz, note for precise note, in two-part harmony. This brings the man and woman together. The cubes roll over again and become an automobile with painted wheels. The couple goes for a drive. The wheels spin. The girl's hair blows in the wind. Paper puffs of exhaust smoke head for the wings. The girl loses her scarf. The car backs up to retrieve it. The smoke reverses direction...
...first, more sylphlike stabile was created in 1931 when he was absorbing surrealism from Joan Miro and Jean Arp. From them he learned the art of expressing the forms of living things in the context and materials of the machine age. As the stabiles' dimensions have grown more mammoth, so have their artistic strength and lean, linear elegance...
...only two events was the team clearly outclassed. Yale's Robert Greenlee took the shot put with a mammoth throw of 51 ft., 1 in., almost 3 1/2 ft., farther than the best toes of the Crimson's Tom Choquette, and in the pole vault Dave Bell fell nine inches short of the winning height of 12 ft., 8 in. The team's other losses came in the 1000-yard run and the one-mile relay...
Quincy has dropped games to both Kirkland and Winthrop, but behind the rebounding of mammoth Neal Cartin, Bill Bremner, Frank Ulcickas, and Dave Losk, the Quins just might avenge both defeats before the season's end. George Campbell and Jim Moorhead provide the quality of ball-handling that forced Winthrop to the wire earlier this month in a one-point decision...