Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Times Will Change. It was only six months ago that the Los Angeles Times announced that it was experimenting with a giant digital computer to speed up the slow mechanical work of converting words on paper into hard type (TIME, Jan. 18). Now many Times reporters tap out their stories on an electric typewriter that in turn controls a tape-punching machine. Editors' corrections also go on tape, and the results are fed directly to an electronically controlled typesetter. The Times is now setting more than half its editorial type by computer, and by year's end will...
...legs that earned $15,000 a week tap-tapping across a nightclub stage were rubbery now, and the speed was gone from the fists that won 153 fights and six world championships. In Philadelphia's Convention Hall last week, Sugar Ray Robinson, 43, meekly absorbed the taunts of beetle-browed Middleweight Joey Giardello, 32. "Boy, are you getting old," gibed Giardello. "Hah!" he laughed, when Robinson threw a pawing punch. "I was waitin' for that...
Dreams of Aid. Older musicians complain that the new, cerebral audience has taken all the joy out of jazz. "The extreme hips try to contemplate jazz rather than enjoy it," says Drummer Shelly Manne. "The audience isn't participating any more. They don't even tap their feet." Foot-tapping, of course, is unthinkable to those engaged in metaphysical seeking. "In me, jazz causes a great inner stirring," says an extreme hip. "It's an inner satisfaction unlike anything else. It's exciting, but more. It's a feeling like being tickled...
When rivers in the U.S. and Europe began to billow with evil-looking foam and tap water frothed like lager beer, the blame was quickly pinned on the synthetic detergents in modern cleaning agents. They wash shirts gleaming white and they make dishes shine, but the bacteria that swarm in soil and sewage do not eat them with the same appetite they have for old-fashioned soap. Rejected by the bugs, the detergents sweep through sewage plants and seep out of septic tanks into the ground water. They are not poisonous, but who likes creamy froth on his drinking...
...model of lively thought. Gwaltney had begun to fret that most alumni magazines were too parochial to cover the main story that serious college graduates care about when they cast their minds back to school: higher education's trends, troubles and triumphs. His solution: informative inserts to tap the vast readership of all alumni magazines combined...