Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heading the list of those who will seek the glory, headlines, and popular acclaim that usually elude Crimson trackmen, is middle-distance runner, French Anderson. Anderson has been invited to compete in the feature 1000-yard run against the likes of Olympic champion Charlie Jenkins (one year out of Villanova) and Yale's freshman whiz, Tom Carroll...
Joyce and Paula's interest as far as their coffee house is concerned is definitely jazz. "We are very interested in furthering progressive jazz," Paula explained. "It is very popular with students, and we want to provide a place where they can hear good experimental jazz...
...Meerloo accepts the popular view that drinking on an empty stomach is risky; food slows the absorption of alcohol into the blood (but fruit, which produces alcohol during digestion, aggravates the problem). He also gives some support to the gagsters who insist that it isn't the whisky in a highball that does the damage but the soda-carbonation, he says, speeds the passage of alcohol through the stomach and into the blood...
...warring clans, the Sullivans and the Aliens. On either channel the image was poor. Jack Oakie's ogling, leering Bill ("Hello, you beautiful people") Brogan was a gusty old buffoon eating high off the ratings when the opposing network decided to fight him with a popular young singer (Earl Holliman). The singer had to survive Madison Avenue metaphors ("Throw Wednesday night in his lap and let him kick it around") and a scourge of publicity beaters who manufactured a cheap exchange of insults ("This feud is all that's keeping you alive...
...rocket fuel is really safe, even the scraped-off match-head material that is popular with subteen-agers. When the fuel burns, it generates gas inside the rocket. If the gas is allowed to escape too easily, its pressure remains low and it generates too little thrust to get the rocket off the ground. If it is confined too much, its pressure rises too high and makes the rocket explode...