Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cetrulo knocked team captain Ron Winfield into the number two sabre spot this year. Winfield, who was named to the All-Ivy squad last year, and Cetrulo should head one of the strongest sabre teams in the country...
...poll when he was told, and explained that because only black interviewers could be used it had been necessary to hire some people who were not on the regular staff. Two of these had falsified their data. Gallup explained that one of the primary means of checking interviews--spot checks by telephone--had been ineffective because there are so few phones in Harlem. He didn't explain why two other habitual means of checking--postcards and the so-called "cheater questions"--had failed. The Harlem survey was the first of the 8000 polls Gallup has conducted to be scrapped...
Money over Matter. Not really. Truth is that while the Raiders scored their two decisive touchdowns, NBC was leading into Heidi with a six-second spot for NBC's Monday Night at the Movies, a 60-second commercial, a ten-second promotional blurb for local stations and a five-second dance by the NBC peacock-a full 81 seconds, all of them eminently cuttable. Charged the Miami Herald: "It was simply a case of money over matter." As one NBC vice president later confessed, the network had promised Timex, sponsor of Heidi, that the $850,000 special would draw...
...more than half a century, the spot in the Louvre's Grande Galerie had the aura of a shrine. And for good reason. There hung Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the Louvre's-and the world's-most famous painting. When Culture Minister Andre Malraux decided to redecorate the gallery and install in it the museum's collection of French paintings, the first question was what could possibly replace La Giaconda's enigmatic smile? The answer, decided Director Andre Parrot and Curator Michel Laclotte, was the tragic clown figure, Gilles, painted...
...always in a spot of bother, in one political situation or another," says Drake, who is 58. "It's just the way we make our daily bread." Should Drake's plans come a cropper, perhaps through continued Justice opposition to the Sinclair and Atlantic Richfield merger, B.P. promises to have another bash at the U.S. before long...