Word: onto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cuffs, please-at least not on the suit being tailored for Hollywood's newest screen giant. He is, after all, a 40-ft. mechanical gorilla named King Kong, and after months of appalling technical problems, he is almost out of the woods and onto the sets of Producer Dino De Laurentiis' monster movie. While the $3 million Kong endured some final tinkering on his hydraulic hands last week, workers began fitting his horsehair covering onto a wood-and-Styrofoam standin. Once the suit is transferred to the star, the unnaked ape will team up with Actors Jeff Bridges...
...middle-aged housewives have had at the drug counter where Lana Turner was discovered some years ago. In 1968 and again in 1974 the electorate voted down such plans and decided to continue its love affair with the automobile. Nonetheless, a third and more grandiose plan will be tacked onto the June 8 presidential primary ballot in Los Angeles County. It calls for 232 miles of track-almost exactly the same as the New York subway system-to be built over 30 years along freeways, flood-control channels and existing railroad rights-of-way, and to serve a total...
...million in each succeeding year. In an authoritative voice former Television Newscaster Ward says: "Nobody else is going to pay for mass transit. If we wait for the Federal Government, it will be two centuries before the job gets done." Even so, the proposal has been rushed onto the ballot partly because Ward hopes that an affirmative vote will enable Los Angeles to snare $800 million in unallocated federal transit-aid funds before some other area gets the money...
...most immediately striking aspect o Diaspora is the way it's put together. The dominant impression is one of spaciousness and particles (words, poems) emphasized by their well-planned isolation in white space. Poems flower out onto the pages, or waterfall down them, or squat like fertility goddesses statuesque against the white. Then too, illustrations recur at intervals never longer than four pages--illustrations mostly that caress the eye, or that sit back and wait to be scratched, or that just purr. Vicki Minnis '77 did Diaspora's cover of cavorting silhouettes, as well as two impressively simple, almost monumental...
...Andover graduate will be a teacher-coach at his alma mater this fall, but right now his mind is on Montreal. As the flag-bedecked cooks ladled food onto plates and a Sousa march blared into the red-white-and-blue hung Quincy cafeteria, someone jokingly asked McCulloh if he was an American...