Word: run
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your account of WAPE broadcasting station was 100% correct. Their programing, although it may be only made up of requests, somehow seems to repeat itself every two or three hours almost record for record. While I love rock 'n' roll, it can be run into the ground, and in that respect WAPE is the chief pile driver...
...Park. In Bakersfield, Calif., racing after a line drive in the 13th inning of a California League baseball game, Modesto's Centerfielder Harry Mayo jammed his arm through the outfield fence, was unable to shake it loose, watched helplessly as the opposing team scored the winning run...
BURNS believes that corporate versatility is the key to progress and profits, plans to make RCA even more versatile. Within a year RCA will bring out a "hear-see" stereo-TV attachment that will run video tapes, e.g., Hamlet, on regular TV sets, bring ex-Teacher Burns closer to his highest goal: teaching by TV. He wants all the nation's schools linked in one grand educational network, starring the best U.S. teachers, who would be paid as much as Burns himself ($170,000). For the blue-sky future, Burns is pushing the development of simple "thermoelectric...
...within six months to a year. Engines will be mounted crosswise to save space, and the cars will have front-wheel drive, no rear axle. Dubbed the Austin Seven and the Morris Mini-Minor, they will have 36-h.p., four-cylinder engines (top speed: 70 m.p.h.), run 45 miles on a gallon of gas. U.S. price: about...
...North Beach's Columbus Avenue, a dozen customers once constituted an oxygen problem at the City Lights bookstore, run by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 40, as a combination Beat Haven and publishing house. Now the crush is so great that the bookstore has been expanded, and Ferlinghetti's only slightly offbeat A Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions) has sold a surprising 15,000 copies. The really far-out beatniks do even better. Allen Ginsberg's effete epic, Howl, published by Ferlinghetti, is up to 40,000 copies in print, and Fantasy Records is preparing a disk...