Word: shades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "hotbed of wrecking operations," the Majlis. The opposition met in Mullah Kashani's garden to protest, and got into a knife fight (one killed, scores hurt). But these stirring events did not arouse southern Iranians to their customary passion. The reason: it was 120° in the shade...
...Gothenburg, Sweden, Kansas Miler Wes Santee ran the fastest 1,500 meters ever run by an American. Time: 3:44.2, just a shade off the world record...
Linda Ferrers, a sensible 18-year-old whose only worry is ending up on the matrimonial remnant counter, has nothing to do with noisy American cutups at first. The man she thinks she loves is Syd, a factory hand who goes in for muscle-building as a hobby. A shade monosyllabic when it comes to small talk. Syd is masterful enough as a movie-balcony Romeo. But before Linda will agree to name the day, she sits down with Syd for a serious talk about their future: "Syd. what about yourself? You got .any ambitions?" Replies Syd: "Well...
...with bankers now, and bankers are very stuffy people." But he has used the same drumfire method (including skywriting) to sell his sets. Furthermore, his markup is so low (only about 20% above cost) that his is one of the few sets whose "list" price discount houses can seldom shade. He built volume on a slim profit; last year's $49.9 million sales yielded only $691,657 net, after taxes. Nobody knows whether Muntz will survive when competition gets tougher, but everybody knows that he will at least make it interesting. Confidently, Muntz himself predicts that air conditioning will...
...With a secondhand 16-mm. movie camera, he photographed budding apple blossoms every hour for four days. The film made each blossom open like an explosion. To take shots oftener, Ott rigged up an electric clock which every five minutes started a motor that pulled down the window shade, switched on floodlights, and tripped his shutter. His movie showed the blossom slowly opening, flowering, then wilting-all in two minutes. He kept up the work as a hobby, while clerking in Chicago's First National Bank (once run by his grandfather, Chicago's late, famed Banker James Forgan...