Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent book, The Davis Cup, Author Edward Potter makes Dwight Davis sound like some sort of Olympian grease monkey. Potter means well...
Shamateurism. The most lamentable aspect of this year's Davis Cup challenge was that, although the Rumanians were basically a sound and well-coached team, they had no business reaching the finals in the first place. The ideal Cup match would have pitted an Australian team of Rod Laver, Tony Roche and John Newcombe against the U.S.'s finest. But in the peculiar stratification of tennis players, the Australian stars are classified as full-fledged professionals (as opposed to "players" like Ashe, who may compete for money but are not under professional contract to any organization). Last July...
...variety of styles. Among them: old-line rock 'n' roll (Oh! Darling), low blues (I Want You), high camp (Maxwell's Silver Hammer), folk (Here Comes the Sun). Though the listener here and there finds such things as a vocal chorus or a swash of electronic sound, most of the time the instrumental textures are uncluttered by overdubbing. Rarely has John played better guitar than on I Want You (She's So Heavy), a cunning combination of two songs with a chilling, mean blues throb. Rarely have Bassist Paul and Drummer Ringo achieved more cohesive...
...Business is harder to come by," says Saul Zeidman, vice president of Allied Stores. Accordingly, many merchants and manufacturers are revising their advertising to emphasize sound value and cost-savings. For example, Coca-Cola is promoting its 16-oz.-bottle package as the "best buy per ounce" in soft drinks, and Westinghouse Electric stresses "the most refrigerator for your money...
20th Century Sound. In a market of 500 SSTs, Boeing's profit will be a handsome $3.5 million on every $40 million aircraft sold. The SST will create 25,000 new jobs at Boeing, and another 25,000 among a host of subcontractors, chiefly General Electric, which has engines virtually ready to attach to Boeing's airframe. To forestall criticism that the SST will create few jobs in the ghettos, Boeing is seeking more black engineers...