Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crash-priority psychology, which often achieves spectacular results, also produced absurdities. Though lavish, laboratory equipment is apt to be overengineered, clumsy and wasteful. Says a British physicist of one laboratory: "The men in charge just sat down with a catalogue and ordered whatever they wanted. There was one fine electron-microscope that they said they hadn't gotten around to using yet, though it had been there a year...
Mocking Greed. Slowly, they built up a reputation on the nightclub circuit. Then, four months ago Omnibus Producer Robert Saudek gave them a 15-minute TV go with spectacular results. Currently, they are at Chicago's Mister Kelly's at $2,500 a week...
Included in these last four outs were two legs before wickets, and catches by Keith Lowe and captain Mansoor Ali. Lowe's in particular was spectacular as he made a diving catch of the ball inches off the ground as it had come fast off the bat of Nigel Anthony...
...Leventritt Award. "We were sitting there," recalls one Leventritt judge, "when in walks this tall, mad-looking fellow, sits down and plays-of all things-Liszt's Twelfth Rhapsody. He bowled us right over. Ordinarily, the judges would not even seriously consider anyone who played a spectacular piece like that. But it was obvious that this was an enormous raw talent; they don't come any bigger." His playing of a far more demanding repertory clinched his victory. When it was announced, he grabbed the daughter of Rosalie Leventritt, the stately dowager who sponsors the contest, and joyously...
...match with Dell, Junta was spectacular. Almost completely recovered from an early season back injury, he bounced back from a 1-3 deficit in the deciding third set to take the next five games and win the tense contest...