Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time to Study. That was expectable from a girl who trains on such exercises as 40 deep knee bends with a 150-lb. barbell across her shoulders. Nancy first rode on skis as an infant strapped into a pack on her father's back. By three, she could angle down a slope by herself, and at 16, she competed in her first international meet: the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley. Her 22nd-place finish in the downhill spurred her to train so hard that Rossland's citizens waged a door-to-door campaign for enough money to send...
...fers), now face higher purchase taxes on thousands of consumer items from liquor to lollipops, TV sets to autos. The tax on Scotch rose 300, to $4.80, lifting the total purchase price of a bottle to $6.48. Because of the tax, cigarettes rose 20, to 670 a pack (total tax: 450), and gasoline increased 40, to 730 for an imperial gallon (total tax: 470). The new levy added a penny to ice-cream cones. New price...
...good part of the evening is pure vaudevillian slapstick-coffin-lid play, unscheduled entrances, involuntary exits, stashing the money where the corpse was and vice versa. The macabre jocularity involves such bits of business as tossing the dead mother's dentures across the room as casually as a pack of cigarettes. All of this demands the split-second timing of a Feydeau farce, and unfortunately Director Derek Gold-by is no Mike Nichols...
Although we recognized that we were accomplishing little aside from producing dilemmas by our presence, there was no feasible way out. Several students suggested that we "pack our bags." That would have been too easily interpreted as a show of hostility and for most of us it would have been an impossible admission of failure...
Another difficulty is that TV's technological problems are only half-mastered. In addition to their standard infantry pack, TV correspondents must keep pace with the troops while toting a tape recorder; their sound men lug some 20 lbs. of amplifiers and other recording gear; the photographers are draped with more than 40 lbs. of camera, batteries and film. Worse still, to synchronize film with the correspondent's commentary, the three have to be linked by a cable less than 10 ft. long, end to end, which makes them about the fattest target in any outfit...