Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contestant threw his brick 67 ft. 2 in., "smack into a tentful of boy scouts." In all, some 75 athletes heaved their bricks into the water. Record toss: 80 ft., give or take a yard or two. What was it all about? None of the brick heavers were quite sure. But Disk Jockey Cordic has a new hobby magazine coming out in the fall, to be called Thud...
Beadle does not take an extreme position. "As a geneticist," he says, "I am prepared to say that fallout is biologically harmful and that we must therefore recognize a moral responsibility to humanity to reduce it to the lowest possible level." He is not sure "whether nuclear-weapons testing has a military or other benefit that outweighs the biological harm." But, like other geneticists, he knows too much to be indifferent to the problem...
Grimacing, he turned around and saw that the girl was still hovering near. Why should she take such an interest in him, when they clearly had so little in common? He, to be sure, was interested in her, but only in the same way his father, since youth an avid ornithologist, would be interested in the machinations of the oven bird...
...rather flat role of Happy, Robert Blackwell seems ill-at-ease at moments and rarely does his characterization catch fire. The role of Charley, the nextdoor neighbor, is carried by John Coe with a sure touch and necessary comic relief. However, he rushes through the beautiful and poignant requiem quite wastefully and thus loses some of the cathartic effect of the play...
...motivational researchers, who take dead aim with all the analytical gimmicks under the supermarket sun. They claim, for instance, that the undecided mass of supermarket shoppers -they call them "emotionally insecure"-really do not know what they want when they enter a store and often are not sure what they have bought right up to the cash registers. In tests, researchers paid for housewives' purchases, led them to another market and asked them to shop again for the week's groceries. There the women bought an entirely different basket of goods. Such tests have persuaded stores to stay...