Word: rex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dramatic case in point occurred during last week's flyin. Rex Evatt, a veteran Santa Clara gyrocopter pilot flying a borrowed craft, banked too steeply in the 30-m.p.h. wind, crashed onto the dry-lake floor. The craft crumpled, the rotor snapped to pieces, but Evatt stepped out unhurt, apologized to his friend for cracking up his $2,000 machine, and the next day was back flying again...
...highest quality that I have discovered of late on visits to colleges and music schools such as Oberlin, Eastman, the University of Texas. I found not only talent but a sensible new generation of human beings. Last spring at an agricultural college in Indiana, I saw my Oedipus Rex in an excellent production by students whose other time, for all I know, was occupied with lectures on fertilizer. Then, only a few weeks ago, I heard the Eastman School orchestra play to perfection, on a minimum of rehearsal, some of my most difficult later music, which at least one renowned...
...heartwarming show, but it wasn't all that great: Nielsen ratings scored it as one of history's most popular specials on the tube. Now Nielsen may know why. Gathering material for his book, How to Rig TV Ratings for Fun and Profit, former Congressional Investigator Rex Sparger had mailed out phony questionnaires to the A. C. Nielsen Co.'s normally top-secret sample viewers, designed to ensure that they would watch Bob's performance. "I chose his show to rig because he is such a great man," joked Sparger. "Maybe I'll hire...
...Washington, the Council will speak to Rep. Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill (D-Cambridge), and Senators Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass.). They will also present their case before Rex M. Whitton, administrator of the Bureau of Public Roads. The federal federal government will pay 90 per cent of the costs of the Inner Belt...
...lawyer in Auchincloss forbears to pass judgment. Instead, he lets Guy Prime, Rex Geer and Angelica do it, in each of the book's three parts. Their testimony conflicts so widely, just as testimony does in courts, that the reader may end up wishing that the author had donned magistrate's robes and handed down a verdict...