Word: pivots
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...first half was a frustrating experience for the Crimson, who dominated the action but couldn't score. Dudley Blodget got off several shots from right wing and Jim Saltonstall showed off the trap-pivot-shoot maneuver he had patented at the center forward position, but with no success...
Died. Leslie L. Biffle, 76, a 20-year veteran of backroom politics on Capitol Hill, who reached his apogee when, as Secretary of the U.S. Senate in 1945-47 and again in 1949-52, his friendship with President Truman made him a power pivot between the White House and the Senate; of pneumonia; in Washington. A wispy, whispery Arkansan, Biffle, as the man in charge of the Senate's machinery, was the one to see to grease the ways for a bill or swing a vote here and there. His political judgment was considered "blue chip" after...
...last week's 1966 championships. Monti could not bear the thought of standing around as a spectator while Nash or somebody else won the race on his own home course. Besides, Brakeman Sergio Siorpaes had designed a faster, more maneuverable sled with motorcycle shock absorbers and a central pivot that permitted both sets of runners to bank independently on curves. "I have never felt more like racing," said Monti after testing the sled. Even a crash failed to dampen his enthusiasm: during practice last month, he was clattering through Cortina's Curva di Arrive at 65 m.p.h. when...
Lest you get bored with the long interior scenes, Godard has greased every pivot on his tripod so that the camera often wheels about the room. In fact, Brialy occasionally hops on a bicycle and rides around the dinner table. By contrast, Godard has inserted five minutes of candid shots on the Paris streets which, grasp their subject matter so naturally that you never think of him trudging about with a bulky cinemascope camera. The abundant use of jump-cuts keeps the films pace fast and your eyes blinking for the entire 90 minutes...
...such an operation on 33 cadavers. They found that while nerves, blood vessels and other soft structures were difficult enough to cut through, the worst obstacle was an important but little-known bone, the clivus, which balances on the very top of the spinal column to form a pivot for the skull. There was only one way to get past the clivus, and that was to cut a window in it. To make this possible, a whole trayful of special instruments had to be designed and built. Those instruments were ready when the young baker was admitted...