Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...copy of the magazine all ten pages are covered with angry red chicken scratches. Exception can be taken to every single paragraph. In short, it's a pretty effective article. Dunham weaves theory and example with fair skill and maintains a consistency of tone and ideology throughout the whole marathon...
They were lucky to leave with their sneakers. In the first singles match, Australia's lanky Fred Stolle outlasted Santana in a three-hour marathon 10-12, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-5. Then Roy Emerson effortlessly disposed of Juan Gisbert 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. That gave the Aussies a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series. At that point Captain Harry Hopman decided to give his first team a rest. For the next day's doubles, he called on a pair of youngsters-John Newcombe, 21, and Tony Roche...
...well-known company can win a quick audience. Competition among the Westerners is so ferocious that they seldom talk with each other and prefer to socialize with their Communist customers. This leads to a lot of overeating, undersleeping and hangovers. The Easterners enjoy treating their capitalist guests to marathon meals, brassy nightclubs and the other delights of bourgeois Bolshevism. Says Günter Friedrich, head of Depolma, a German-Polish trading company: "You have to have an enormous capacity for vodka and an endless stock of jokes-particularly political jokes and spicy ones...
...records for popcorn sales? It's not a bird or a plane but, of all things, Batman. The 1939 comic-strip creation of Bob Kane, which Columbia Pictures filmed in 1943 as a 15-episode serial, has now been spliced, end to end, to produce a 248-minute marathon of fist fights, zombies and ravenous alligators. Last week it was packing the house at an off-campus theater near the University of Illinois, and Columbia plans similar orgies in 20 major cities...
Wallace calculates nonetheless that he needs the statehouse as a power base from which to launch a third-party presidential bid in 1968. After he lost a marathon legislative battle to amend the constitution in his favor last month, most people concluded that he would go after John Sparkman's U.S. Senate seat next year instead. This is still a possibility, though Wallace has let associates know that he prefers to "continue the fight from here...