Word: redwoods
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...They have the Farnsworth room, which is an exact replica of a 19th century library, with all the old books and everything. But they have some Sinclair Lewis novels if you want to read the up-to-date stuff. Then they've got the Woodberry poetry room, with Swedish redwood panelling and three-thousand-dollar turntables four feet high. Of course nobody's interested in poetry much any more, but the boys from Humanities 130 slipped in some Burl Ives' records with obscene lyrics and zither accompaniment, and the place is really jumping now. They have the forum room...
Between long bouts of powder-room chitchat. The Echoing Grove commendably attempts to dig below the surface of life, but its well-manicured prose cuts into reality about as deeply as a nail file into California redwood...
Robot Announcer. California's radio station KEAR at San Mateo plans to go on the air this week without an announcer from 6 p.m. to midnight. Instead, KEAR will use a new long-playing tape playback device developed by Ampex Electric Corp. of Redwood City, Calif. Spot announcements and commercials are recorded on one tape, music on another; the announcements are cut in automatically, thus permitting KEAR to operate with only an engineer on duty. Cost of two tape and recording units: approximately...
...student council of the Union High School in Redwood City, Calif, formally banished girls from a field they had come to dominate: cheer leading. Reasons: 1) girls don't have the authority to control rooters; 2) girls don't know enough about the subtleties of sport to know when to lead a cheer; 3) girls are too shrill; and 4) the boys want to get into...
...trying to substantiate the redwood thesis, Chaney has written more than a dozen of the 140-odd articles published to date about the Metasequoia...