Word: slammings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article on Phil Spector, today's pacesetter in rock 'n' roll [Feb. 19]: nearing 20, my taste in music has tended to drift away from the slam-bam, guitar-twangin', noise-styled rock 'n' roll, but I still maintain a liking for the work of Spector, who should be thanked for his efforts to raise the music of his time to artful expression...
...tests off San Diego, the Mark-46, equipped with dummy instead of high-explosive warheads, sought out and struck highly maneuverable nuclear submarines with unerring accuracy. One especially determined Mark-46 survived its initial collision and proceeded to slam again and again into the target sub. To escape damage to his boat, the skipper swiftly surfaced; the Mark-46 is prevented by its programming from returning to shallow depths, where it might turn upon and destroy the ship that fired...
GOLDFINGER. Another slam-bang spoof of Ian Fleming's fiction has James Bond (Sean Connery) testing his mettle with a gilded nude, a shapely henchwoman named Pussy Galore, and a master criminal who plans to pry the gold out of Fort Knox...
Giant Squeeze. No major country is ready to slam the door on U.S. businessmen, but the welcome is cooling most rapidly where recent American in vestments have been heaviest. As the flood of dollars shows no sign of receding, European businessmen are increasingly worried about being squeezed out by U.S. corporate giants, which have such a high scale of financing, research and marketing. In West Germany, where U.S. business has a $2 billion stake and General Motors' Opel has become a formidable competitor of Volkswagen German industrialists are beginning to pressure the government to do something. While Italy still...
...second period, Hostetter was docked a point for another slam, an infraction which would have cost him two points had the first been called, and which would have made the final score 3-2 for Hall rather than 2-1 for Hostetter...