Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might go on for another year. (Added Chief Engineer Leo Beranek: "We do not intend to tear down the hall and re build.") The acoustical debate, in fact. became so silly that it was even joined by the New York Herald Tribune's Art Buchwald, who proposed a Save Lincoln Center Committee. "Acoustically speaking," gibed Buchwald only a few days after the opening. "Philharmonic Hall is still excellent, and the passage of time has only improved the wonderful sounds that emanate from the rafters...
...thinking in terms of quick-firing 5-in. guns or huge Polaris missiles, the assignment at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington was far out of line. Their task: to make a gun that could be fired point-blank inside the human head-not to kill but to save. The unusual technical feat required even more unusual ammunition: a piece of hair only one two-hundredth of an inch in diameter and one-fourth of an inch long, which had to pierce something even less resistant than a toy balloon, and do it with such delicate force that it would...
...Harrison P. Hagemeyer, 62, a retired lab machinist, took on the job, for a good personal reason, and made the gun. Last week the Navy was confident that eventually it will save many lives...
...office last February to run for Governor of Michigan. "It just isn't the same," sighs one AMC executive, "without George pumping up and down the halls and roaring in and out of the offices." For the first time since 1954, when Romney roared in to save little American Motors from the junk heap, the company last week introduced its new cars without him. They showed that more than the decibel count had changed on Mahogany...
Early in the fourth period, Steve Sewall (Ohiri's roommate) scored on a cross-over pass from Mike Kramer at left outside. Less than a minute later, a Kramer shot from the side was blocked by an amazing Kaufman save that brought a round of applause from the crowd...