Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everett-on-the-Spot. Most significant was the soul-searching among Senators, many of them Western liberals who have long bowed to N.R.A.-generated pressure and opposed effective controls. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, who as chairman of the Commerce Committee helped bottle up the Dodd bill after J.F.K.'s assassination, said he would now vote for a ban on the mail-order sale of all guns because of "the violence and terror surging through the streets of every county and every state." Democrats William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, Edmund Muskie of Maine, Mike Monroney of Oklahoma and Republican...
...take a dip. Though an accomplished swimmer, he smashed his head on the bottom after diving from the board, and floated to the surface paralyzed-a quadriplegic for life. He sued, arguing that his host should have warned him that the pool was only 7 ft. at its deepest spot. "Regretfully," the court disagreed. The pool had been used for more than two years without an accident, and the owner had no reason to consider it dangerous. In any case, Telak had been around the pool for many hours and should have known how shallow the water...
...typical robot is outrigged with a hydraulic arm that, mounted on a desk-like base, is capable of reaching out, seizing industrial material and moving it from one spot to another. The two leading U.S. manufacturers of first-generation robots are Connecticut-based Unimation Inc. (a subsidiary of Pullman Inc.) and AMF Thermatool, Inc., of New Rochelle, N.Y. (a subsidiary of AMF Co.), which between them have about 140 of their surrealistic creations (price range: $18,000 to $25,000) operating in plants at home and abroad. With the robots proving their worth in one industry after another...
Rarely is one year different from another in this pattern of success. One team a season wins a championship, two or three others challenge for the top spot, and although unsuccessful, inflate the victory percentage in the process and the remaining one or two flounder miserably in the Ivy cellar, earning the undying emnity of the Department of Athletics statistician...
...points in his final regular season game (against Yale) and an assist in the first round of the ECAC Tournament, Parrot emerged as the third highest scorer in Harvard history behind Bob Cleary and Gene Kinasewich. After the hockey season, he played his way into the number four singles spot on the tennis team. In the crucial victory over Penn, which assured Harvard a share of the Eastern crown, Parrot won his singles match and then teamed with Jose Gonzalez in the pivotal doubles match of the 5-4 Harvard decision...