Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pool tables, leather armchairs, and antique posters survive. but that chorus line has been exorcised forever by Lindsay Crouse and the Cambridge Dance Company. Miss Crouse's production, Winter, General Clearance of Evils at the Beginning of is as ambitious as its title, and, almost incvitably, sometimes falls short of its goals. But when it succeeds it does more than create moments of beauty and excitement; it fuses space, light, and color, music and movement, into a living whole: the all-encompassing "Energy" Blake called Eternal Delight...
Planting Fish. What could be done to clean up the mess? The mosquito abatement district switched from the persistent DDD to methyl parathion, a chemical that is effective against gnats but that deteriorates and becomes harmless in a short time. At the same time, the district hired a team of scientists from the University of California at Davis to find a way to control the gnats biologically. Led by Entomologist Sherburne F. Cook Jr., the team decided that a small fresh-water smelt, the Mississippi silverside, might find the gnats appetizing. In 1967 they "planted" 3,000 fingerlings...
...required if they are to raise the cash that they need. Sidney Homer and Economist Henry Wallich, among others, have seriously suggested that mortgage and bond issuers may have to pay variable interest rates tied to movements in consumer prices. Some experts also expect a swing from long to short-term financing. There are signs of that happening already. Executives of Hawaiian Electric Co., for example, last month wanted to-sell $18 million worth of 30-year bonds but, after consulting with underwriters, decided instead to sell an issue maturing in only five years...
...freshman game. St. John's forward Bill Schaeffer, whose 30 points led all scorers, hit a short jumper underneath with three seconds left in the game to tip the Yardlings...
...occurrences about to be related were evident on the morning of our arrival at the Bowle. A well dressed alumni wife, spying the Moratorium buttons worn by my date and I, shouting to her fellow pre-noon cocktail party imbibers, "Oh, not another one this week": tow short-haired mid-fortyish couples in the station wagon next to my car, upon seeing my comb my beard. remarking, "Take a look at that creep, will...