Word: pads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe the signs, Joe has opened another branch at the end of Plympton St. where the Pizza Pad used to be. However the "owner" of the second Joe's pizza swears Joe has nothing to do with the product he serves. He says that he has a "personal" arrangement with Joe whereby Joe's sign is hung over his store and an advertisement for the original Joe's pizzeria appears on his take-out boxes...
...case, Geller asked Lawrence to think of a number between one and ten and to write it down, as large as possible, on a pad. While Lawrence wrote, Geller made a show of concentrating and covering his eyes with his hands. But Hyman, carefully observing Geller, noticed that the Israeli's open eyes were visible through his fingers. Thus Geller was probably able to see the motion of Lawrence's arm as he wrote, and to correctly identify the number, ten. Knowing how to read arm movements, Hyman notes, is important to every magician...
...Crimson coach Edo Marion and the rest of the squad, the Friday night match, coming after a five-hour bus ride from Cambridge, will be a serious test instead of a sure-fire win to pad the Crimson record...
...heartbeat. The bitterly disappointed Slayton subsequently became chief of flight-crew operations at the Manned Spacecraft Center and played a key role in picking all future space crews, including the first men to land on the moon. But even as he sent other astronauts to the launch pad, he never stopped dreaming of making the trip into space himself...
Just about everyone in Houston had doubted he would ever make it to the launch pad-everyone, that is, except Slayton. Determined to prove that he was physically fit, he continually worked out in the astronauts' gym, jogged across the sprawling space center (inexplicably, the heart irregularity always vanished after a good run) and kept up his piloting skills by flying with other astronauts in dual-control jets. Over the years, he also consulted prominent cardiologists, including Paul Dudley White. All for naught; though the irregularity did not recur for months at a time, it inevitably came back. Then...