Word: slammings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kicking Tires. Unlike the auto industry, in which buyers crowd into showrooms to kick tires and slam doors, the truckmakers rely on aggressive bell-ringing salesmanship. The fleet owners, the largest of which are A.T. & T., Hertz and REA Express, account for 30% of all sales. They care less about chrome than about axle ratios and operating costs, unlike auto buyers insist on vehicles that will easily run 400,000 miles without major overhaul. All the salesmen's calls and painstaking demonstrations for show-me truckers are worth the effort, however. Depending on optional equipment, truck sales...
...When I received my copy of TIME with the photomontage of rock 'n' roll stars on the cover, I immediately thought that TIME was going to slam the entire teen-age generation's music and have some old fogy who has only heard the Beatles on Uncle Ed Sullivan's show write it. Instead, it was a thoroughly comprehensive study of modern music...
...Brandeis game was a parody, Against the Justices' Fred Marden, ostensibly one of the best pitchers in the Boston area, Harvard scored five runs in the second and four more in the fourth on Tom Bilodeau's grand slam home...
Doubles, which won the Princeton match for Harvard, spelled defeat against Penn. Hamlin' serve and Reese's overall power was too much slam-bang for Steels and Peckham, who bowed...
...amateur tennis and turned pro in 1963 was respect for his elders. The cocky, carrot-topped Aussie lefthander, then 24, was far from awed by the likes of Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall. After all, he was the first player since Don Budge in 1938 to achieve a grand slam of tennis' four top tournaments-the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships. Experts marveled at his vicious ground strokes and slashing serve, his unique ability to cock his wrist at the last instant to put topspin or underspin on the ball...