Word: towed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back on earth, the ingenious rope could be used underwater to aid aquanauts. Average citizens might well want a version to moor a boat or tow a car, the idea in both cases being to keep things apart as well as together. And Dr. Marton thinks his brainchild might make a big public impact from whence it sprang-as a toy. Flung out loose and then frozen, it makes a marvelously accurate lasso as well as tripper-upper and grabber-onto of things it wraps around. His two children have already demolished two of his homemade versions...
...Rules. There have been few such cases. Easter v. Segelbaum, decided in Washington state, is typical. Easter, who had been standing in a tow line, successfully recovered damages from Segelbaum, who had come whizzing off the end of the trail, slicing one of Easter's left leg tendons. But most collisions result in no suit, in part because no rule clearly spells out who is to blame. In Europe, where skiing ranks right behind traffic and industry as the leading everyday accident hazard, the problem is more serious...
Five Cambridge mothers, with four children in tow, staged a sit-in yesterday outside the offices of Howard Johnson, president of M.I.T., to dramatize their demand that M.I.T. join in the fight against the Inner Belt...
Then, late in 1964, Manager Roy Silver took Joan in tow. "He cut out every piece of esoterica," she recalls, "a lot of the homosexual references, a lot of the ethnic references. For 51 years, I had been telling jokes about my Kafkaesque past. I didn't make a dime, so now I'm looking for universals...
...autumn air with praise ("He is frank; he is direct; you can trust Bob Griffin!"). Romney has set a punishing schedule (25 downstate appearances in one day last week), made countless curbstone handshaking forays, appeared on TV spots and shows for Griffin. The Governor even took the Senator in tow and crashed the Democrats' Labor Day festivities. The two Republicans marched -uninvited-in a Democratic parade, went to the airport-uninvited-to meet President Johnson, and sat-uninvited-in an A.F.L.-C.I.O. audience during Johnson's speech at Detroit's Cobo Hall. Then Romney and Griffin helicoptered...