Word: score
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer and senior editor in other sections, before he took over The Nation in the summer of 1965. His head researcher is Amelia North, who has been shepherding the section's girls through political campaigns since General Dwight Eisenhower ran for President in 1952. In all, a score of writers, reporters and researchers will be working in the section this election year...
...just pulled a bank job and needs "something that moves." The rest of the commercial is a hilarious takeoff on the scene from the movie in which the bandits kidnap a young couple. In this case, the unsuspecting Pontiac salesman merrily delivers his pitch-again to a banjo score-while Clyde & Co. barrel down the road with him. At length, they boot him out. Says the salesman, unperturbed: "How are you going to finance it?" Bonnie mutters sullenly: "Finance it, Clyde." Clyde tosses out a satchel of money and drives off, while the salesman, ever the honest fellow, chases them...
...been raging over the airport for three days. The longest and widest runway is blocked by a mired Boeing 707. A traffic controller is suicidally depressed. And a Rome-bound flight lifts off with a man carrying a bomb in his briefcase. How Airport Manager Mel Bakersfeld and a score of other characters cope provides the suspense of this obvious but well-programmed novel. Among the nuggets Hailey might better have left unreported is a chillingly explicit vignette on How to Build a Bomb with materials available in hardware stores for "less than five dollars...
...final score was St. Peter's 100, Duke...
With Wood earning All-America honors, Harvard steamrollered its first seven opponents by a composite score of 149-26. Only the Yale game stood between Wood and an eastern championship. Only Yale and Albie Booth. For the Cambridge flash the script was wrong. Harvard got only one scoring opportunity, blew it and then had to watch in anguish as Booth clicked on a late field goal to snap Wood's string...