Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vesper's example should persuade outstanding college oarsmen to continue with crew in rowing clubs after graduation. The victory could well signal the end of collegiate domination of U.S. rowing...
...Busy Signal. Meanwhile, other insiders were flooding London's legal bookmakers with bets on the winning dogs. The bookies, who pay track odds, frantically tried to lay off some of the money at Dagenham itself. But the telephone circuits serving the tote at the track were blocked and busy for a crucial ten minutes before race time...
...Busy Signal. Police got proof of the fraud only on exam day, but bureaucracy made it impossible to switch to a standby bachot. The decision to change, explained an official of the Marseille test center, could be made only by the exam results to be compared with a student's regular work. Those scoring suspiciously well will get an oral grilling. President Charles de Gaulle was so peeved by the inglorious mess that at a Cabinet meeting he asked his Education Minister: "Alors, Fouchet, and about this bac?" Replied Fouchet, with grumpy high-score logic: "The whole thing would...
...only outstanding skill but also one of Denmark's favorite actresses as a wife. Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens may be the world's finest pleasure park; there, most summer nights the fireworks splash the city with light, and a cannon booms the midnight signal...
White Gloves & Pink Diplomas. Ungummed social graces were much in evidence last week as 90 graduates carried pink diplomas in one white-gloved hand and pink roses in the other. An organ played, and as if on signal, the girls broke into tears-for Emma Willard will be hard to leave...