Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record-tying 20.5 sec. for 220 yds. around a turn) racing in the 200 meters, and Ulis Williams (whose 45.8 sec. for 440 yds. is only .1 sec. off the world mark) in the 400 meters, anything short of a clean sweep by the U.S. will rank as a signal triumph for the Soviets...
...make their way to diner or buffet are served by uniformed girls trundling carts richly laden with food and sake up and down the aisles. Not the least of Kodama's claims to fame is its split-second scheduling. Trains leave with the precision of a time signal, are allowed errors of only 15 seconds in passing major stations along the route. Five minutes' leeway is permitted on time of arrival but more than a minute of this margin is rarely used...
...have been edited out. But whenever the script gets draggy, Director Richard Quine perks things up with a sight gag-like Kim Novak tubbing with the nude serenity of the White Rock girl while the intruding Lemmon clicks his eyes open and shut at the speed of a navy signal light. In a berserk finale, Novak trades punches with a lady nurse the size of a Japanese Sumo wrestler, and Lemmon goes on a piston-legged, cliffside pursuit of an old lady's runaway wheelchair, with the old lady in it, while a brass band spiritedly renders...
Even the most encouraging indicators still lacked the surge that the Administration had hoped for. And then there was the stock market (see BUSINESS). Was its performance a signal of trouble ahead? And if it was. how should it be treated? Many businessmen and economists felt that there was a need for immediate action-and the most obvious medication was a quick tax cut. On this point, some conservative businessmen found themselves in rare agreement with Minnesota's liberal Senator Hubert Humphrey, who demanded an immediate $5 billion slash in taxes. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon opposed any such remedy...
...Minow goes on, "are loyal to the point of being fanatics." In recent months, licenses have been awarded to two new FM stations in the Chicago area-one in De Kalb, and the other in Skokie. Both were on frequencies so close to WFMT that they blocked out its signal locally. Aroused citizens have formed angry ranks in protest, setting up such a clamor that the FCC agreed to shift the new De Kalb station to a more distant frequency and probably will do the same in Skokie...