Word: tins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started out looking as if he was going to blitz Salaun the same way. He ran to a 9-1 lead and then ran out the first game easily at 15-0. In the second he pulled away to a 14-12 lead, but whacked two shots into the tin and lost a three-of-Eve ofter played for the game. The players spilt the next two games, but Salaun won crucial prints at 12-15 and 22-12 to takes the east accorded...
Train was playing precise squash, not letting up for a minute. He grabbed the load at 5-3 and hold it: the score went to 7-6, 10-6, 13-10, and suddenly, as Francis whacked a shot into the tin, Train led 14-10. He had four match points, four chances to end the Crimson's unbeaten season and 28-match winning streak...
Train called for "set three," a three-out-of-five playoff for the match. He was going all out now, but it was too late: Francis had the hot hand. Two of Train's shots hit the tin, a serve died in the corner, and John Francis had done the impossible once again...
...life of the stage was more interesting than cracking oil. Housed in an old warehouse, the Mummers have set some sort of record by being solvent from the start, especially since they produce Edward Albee and Samuel Beckett as well as surer things like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which closed a successful run last week. "A successful resident theater," says the Ford Foundation, "appears to be dependent upon a single driving, talented director or producer determined to have his own theater company and to have it in a particular place." Ford recently gave Seism...
Disappointing Magic. As permanent parts of the city landscapes, some of the older slums are getting paved streets, electricity, running water. TV antennas are beginning to sprout above tin roofs; once in a while a relatively imposing dwelling thrusts above the squalid huts. But no major Latin American city has been able to cope with the ever-growing demands for housing. At least 400,000 new low-cost urban housing units are needed in Venezuela, 400,000 in Chile, 500,000 in Argentina...