Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real shock," said Roy Etnyre, athletic director of New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. "It's like somebody dying," murmured Seattle Lawyer Archie Greenlee. They had a right to be shocked: both men are parents of cadets who were suddenly dropped from the roster of the U.S. Air Force Academy last week in the wake of the widening, deepening stolen-exam scandal. At Colorado Springs, academy officials sealed off the grounds as tightly as a SAC base on alert, while special investigators from Washington grilled an estimated 700 members of the 2,500-strong cadet wing...
Silent as a Ghost. The G.M. sleds resemble the Podars about as much as a Corvette does a Corvair. The innovations include shock absorbers and sports-car-type "direct" steering (v. the Podar's rope-controlled runners). In trial runs at Lake Placid, N.Y., last month, a two-man G.M. sled beat the best time of a heavier, four-man Podar -and the four-man G.M. was faster yet. At St. Moritz last week, astonished European bobbers nicknamed the two man sled "the Ghost" because its rubber-seated runners merely whispered over the ice-while the Podars clattered...
...rewards are great on the OTC market, so are the risks. The OTC average fell farther than the Dow-Jones in the 1962 market break, took longer to recover. That shock made investors shrewder, and their recent revival of interest indicates that the OTC market has generally become more solid...
Salvation Army. The two-level set was designed by Pop Sculptor Richard Randell, 35, who fashioned a gilt-sprayed throne out of a tangle of exhaust pipes, shock absorbers, grease guns and tireless wheels. On the lower level, he amassed heaps of railroad ties, packing boxes, oversized inner tubes pierced with spikes, and coils of baling wire-"the residue of industrial decay to show the decadent state of the kingdom, a kind of subterranean...
According to Dean Munro, things are not that simple. He hints at misbehaviours that would shock...