Word: splash
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...first important use of Early Bird (the heart operation seen across an ocean, the international conversations) made quite a splash on television and in the newspapers. What was largely left to be told was the story of the genius and years upon years of faith and dedication and work that led to the moment when the first image was sent on its round trip through space. This, plus an assessment of what the fantastic advance in communications portends for the future, is the essence of the cover story turned out by Veteran Science Writer Jonathan Norton Leonard and Senior Editor...
Alabama's freshman Congressman William Dickinson, 39, a Democrat-turned-Republican, is an ex-footballer from Montgomery, a onetime state judge, and a former assistant vice president of the Southern Railway System. He likes to make a splash. Last week he splashed mud all over the House floor. But only Dickinson got dirty...
...such cases the old rule of caveat emptor especially prevails. The offbeat plunger can make a big splash if he is lucky; he can also quickly go under. Bankers and investment houses usually shy away from such unusual and high-risk opportunities, but potential investors seldom have trouble hearing about them. Word travels rapidly through accountants, special brokers, newspaper advertisements, relatives or neighbors who want to let someone in on a good thing-they hope...
Some book. Titled Below the Surface: The Confessions of an Olympic Champion (William Morrow; $5), it has the splash of a poolside Peyton Place. "Olympic morals," Dawn confides, "are far more loose than any outsider would expect. There's material in the average Olympic Village for a thesis which might earn any budding Kinsey a Ph.D." Dawn should know. She's been going to the Olympics since 1956 -and taking notes, apparently, all the while...
...extension of the twelve-tone music espoused by Nono's idol and father-in-law, the late Composer Arnold Schoenberg. Italian Composer Bruno Maderna conducted the performance like a man refereeing a pingpong match, swinging from side to side to summon a swatch of mewing strings here, a splash of braying trumpets there. For the singers it was "up and down, up and down, from high C to low F," said Tenor Lawrence White. "It's enough to drive you crazy...