Word: unraveling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole argument is a confusing mess that Senate investigating committees have been at a loss to unravel. At any rate, the petty officials and the petty coaches go at one another, and just like in the similarly trivial NCAA-Ivy League squabble, the losers are the athletes. The hopelessness of the participants' situations was highlighted by Villanova's superb Irish runners. Ian Hamilton and Frank Murphy. If they competed, they were threatened with losing the eligibility to compete on Irish national teams and in the Olympics. If they didn't run, they would be violating their athletic scholarships and might...
...Travel Agent Susan Stein recalls with a shudder the time recently when her sequined dress got tangled in the sequins belonging to Marie Edith Legendre, the French consul general's wife. "I took a small loss at my hem," says Susan, "because I thought her whole dress might unravel." More serious still, there are signs that all the glitter is leading to snow blindness. Snaps the Boston Globe's Marjorie Sherman: "Frankly, I don't think I'm going to put any glitter on my Christmas tree, I'm so sick...
...clouds, Rossow proposes a novel experiment. Fine wire could be wound into a projectile and fired through tornado-spawning clouds. After the projectile leaves the cannon, a parachute-like plate attached to one end of the wire would pop open. It would pull on the wire, causing it to unravel from the speeding projectile...
...former Massachusetts attorney-general. He hasn't held office since 1962, when he gave up the attorney-generalship to run against Edward M. Kennedy '54 for the U.S. Senate. He was badly beaten in a convention and primary. A loss this year might force his tightly-knit organization to unravel. To keep it going and to keep himself politically alive McCormack would have to find another office. Boston elects a Mayor in 1968 and McCormack could conceivably try for that if he wanted to challenge Mayor John F. Collins or if Collins wanted to step down...
...have picked the wrong wonders, only that their list is too short. Britain's Stonehenge, says the British-born scientist, is the eighth wonder-a remarkable achievement of primitive man. In a new book, Stonehenge Decoded (Doubleday; $5.95), he explains how he turned to a modern computer to unravel the 3,500-year-old mystery of Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge's long-kept secret, says Hawkins, is that its vast stone slabs and archways make up a sophisticated astronomical observatory...