Word: plattered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure, this electronically amplified paean to peace, pot and permissiveness has become the My Fair Lady of the Now Generation, and its success is even more striking on records. Hair is the first Broadway musical since Man of La Mancha to win a gold platter -the record industry's reward for selling $1,000,000 worth of disks. RCA Victor's original-cast recording has been the No. 1 album bestseller for seven weeks. Even Atlantic's recording of the London production has sold 60,000 copies...
...discus is the only weight event in which Yale will be a threat. Its top man in the event, Tom Neville, has thrown the platter past the 170-foot mark this season, further than any Crimson thrower. Harvard captain Dick Benka, however, edged Neville for second place in the Heps with a throw of 169 ft. 1 in., barely a foot shy of Neville's best career throw...
...game began with a triple to right center by Joe "Honky" Strickland, who became the first of six Niemans to cross the old platter in the first stanza. Everybody hit. The CRIMSON got lucky and the inning ended...
...great Nieman star was Gordon "Ringer" Taylor assistance professor of English, who homered early and ignited the Nieman spark with his derring-do as he slid on his brow across the old platter...
...guessing game of "why doesn't Gloria Steinem settle down?" Her response: "I always think I'm going to get married. The trouble is, I just don't want to now. You can't expect a man to give you your identity on a silver platter, which is what society would have us believe. That's dishonest, and it has produced a lot of bitter women. Because I have work to care about, it's possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start...