Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this black picture Weese found a spot of light: a picture postcard on sale at his hotel. It showed a provincial chieftain's long adobe hut, with evenly-spaced, pointed buttresses made of mud that speared high above the slanted roof. Weese tucked it away for future reference. Then he went hunting for mahogany, which turned out to be so plentiful in Accra that it is used for Coca-Cola crates. Using that primitive tool of building research, the knife, he personally verified two facts: 1) termites feast on mahogany (the reason builders had stopped using...
...Bertone will wrestle 137, with John Vernaglia at 147 meeting Eveland. Newcomer Orrin Hein, recently recovered from an injury, will wrestle at 157 against Terry Case, with Steve Weddle meeting John Moyle at 167. Pete Rogers will return to the 177 spot after an illness, with undefeated Ted Robbins meeting undefeated Giorgini at heavyweight, in what shapes up as the most interesting match of the evening...
...captured rifles and machine guns. Currently, the guerrillas are living well on pork, chicken, fresh fruit and vegetables from nearby farms, which Castro buys with personally autographed IOUs, payable "when the revolution wins." Operating in platoons of 22 men each, they sleep in the open, and in a different spot every night. They can strike and then disappear into the trees...
...quit as executive vice president of McCann-Erickson, world's second largest ad agency (after J. Walter Thompson), surrendering a salary "well up in six figures." Said he: "Last year I flew 64,000 scheduled airline miles and found myself concentrating on meeting problems. I got tired of spot-welding jobs. I wanted to do the whole job. We also had honest differences of opinion on doing advertising and how to run an agency. I want to return to the personal practice of advertising rather than help administer an advertising corporation...
...might do well to note that once again the dauntless Mr. Magoo was the bright spot of the evening. Indeed, were it not for our nearsighted saviour, Brattle patrons might think that the motion picture distributors were giving the Brattle little but second rate material. Those of us whose interests extend beyond UPA cartoons, travelogues, and re-releases of originally poor films are becoming discouraged...