Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ought not to be assumed, according to reliable sources, that this was a trivial occurrence. The class feeling was strong -- registering a pittsburgh on the Zultz Scale. (For reasons that are necessarily obscure the late Dr. Zuitz calibrated his machine on a Boston to-Los Angeles scale.) And October 22 was very early in the class's career at Harvard. Few classes make it past the Hudson before Thanksgiving...
...Fence. It began two weeks ago when a Cuban militiaman slipped into the U.S. base at Guantanamo and -ignoring two warnings from guards -was shot trying to scale the fence back into Cuban territory. Castro angrily claimed that the marines had coldbloodedly gunned down the militiaman inside Cuba. Two days later, six more militiamen showed up on the base and even exchanged fire with marines before scrambling back. Once again, Castro accused the U.S. of taking potshots at innocent Cubans. Then, lashing out at the "uncontrolled bandits" and "sons of bitches" to the north, he accused Washington of planning...
...grander scale was a superb new ballet based on Purcell's music for The Faerie Queen, starring Britain's Dame...
Singling out the city whose sinfulness most insistently demands repentance on a massive scale is a perplexing problem to Billy Graham; he has at one time or another handed the palm to New York, Berlin, Chicago, Los Angeles and even Boston. Clearly though, it is swinging London that rates the special concern of the glowing-eyed evangelist, and last week he was back there to begin a five-week crusade, his second in twelve years...
With rib-cracking insight, Arkin plays Rozanov, leader of the scouting party that slips ashore to commandeer a launch and stays to persuade the island's crotchety nor'easterners that a full-scale invasion has begun. Taking over a tailor shop, subduing a telephone operator (Tessie O'Shea), Arkin's response to crisis is a cunning blend of caution, mad sweetness and reluctant acts of aggression, all booby-trapped with nuance about the love-hate relationship between East and West. Though many of his lines are in Russian (hastily acquired for this role), his Red-roving...