Word: slots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nehama Jacobs '73 and Jane Elliott '74 are two of the ten women sportscasting finalists competing for the four-minute weekend slot...
...Student Fieldman program appears to be a purely technical proposition. Its sessions concentrate on media and campaign organizing, on the logistics of canvassing, registrations, candidate's campus appearances and recruitment. There is not a single time slot scheduled for a discussion touching on ideology, that odd notion which fills the heart of any good political organization man with scorn...
...underworld," whose nervous hands and hoarse voice became familiar to the nation's television viewers during the Senate crime hearings of 1951; following a heart attack; in Manhattan. In the classic pattern, Costello graduated from teen-age street gangs to bootlegging to control of a national slot-machine racket with estimated annual revenues of $2 billion. By investing widely in police, legislators and legitimate businesses, "Uncle Frank" became a power in New York City politics. He managed to elude any major convictions until his reluctance to testify fully before Senator Estes Kefauver's crime investigating committee cost...
...deal on an Olivetti duplicating machine, a branch of the South San Francisco public library replaced its SCM copier. Almost immediately the Olivetti began malfunctioning. Ink seeped onto the floor, paper tore, copies came out wet and smudged, coins with bits of chewing gum began sticking in the pay slot. The mystery ended when a librarian spotted SCM's regional sales manager with a companion who was tinkering with the machine. Olivetti's local marketer, Copico, sued SCM and introduced evidence that the corporation (formerly Smith-Corona) had a policy of using sabotage as a sales tactic...
...that's your idea of a fun evening, why travel downtown and pay ten dollars when you can see the same thing in your living room for free? No Hard Feelings, rich with a cast of television veterans, reproduces most of the fatuousness of the 7:30 p.m. time slot, occasionally throwing in a few good jokes about pregnant women, inter-racial love affairs, and poorly pressed suits...