Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Earl Sande, 69, famed jockey, who won the Kentucky Derby three times, the Belmont Stakes five times in the 1920s and early '30s; of heart disease; in Jacksonville, Ore. Celebrated as that "handy guy Sande" by Damon Runyon, the spruce, sharp-tongued rider earned a place in sport's pantheon alongside Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Bobby Jones. He won 967 races and nearly $3,000,000 in purses before retiring...
...income-tax surcharge enacted in late June. Unless the credit brakes were eased, so their argument ran, the combination of both fiscal and monetary restraint could slow the economy too much and create the risk of a mini-recession. To offset such economic drags as a sharp drop in steel buying, a leveling off in defense outlays and the anticipated decline in consumer spending, the Administration counts on a major rebound in housing construction. Yet despite a huge backlog of unfilled demand for new housing, the result of the 1966 credit squeeze that crippled the industry for a year...
...what Author-turned-Film Maker Norman Mailer says he's after, and despite the critical catcalls over his first movie, he's still in there cranking away. The latest is a flick about a paranoid film director, played by old Norm of course, with a sharp little subplot about a bunch of male prostitutes. How's that for a takeoff on Belle de Jour? Beautiful. So there they were, Mailer and about 100 of his pals, out on Long Island shooting some scenes and pow!-Norm got into a fight with Actor Lane Smith and broke Smith...
...reason for the increase is a technical breakthrough. The introduction of smaller, more efficient compressors four years ago has led to a sharp drop in sales prices and to easier installation. Where it once took a crew of technicians to install an air conditioner, the average woman can now take one home and start it cooling in five minutes. Another reason for the rush, manufacturers say, is propaganda and pressure on parents from their children. Says William B. Clemmens, manager of General Electric's room-air-conditioner division: "Our children are raised in an air-conditioned culture. They attend...
...wondrous in that the audience is left with a feeling of simultaneous movement toward action and away from it. At the same time that we move to a higher vantage point with a wider angle of vision, we are jerked away from the luxury of watching action in sharp focus detail. The effect is one of ultimate suspension, in every sense of the word, and the greatness of the ending is a consequence of the perfect optical realization of attitude and theme...