Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football jersey with No. 70 on the back, he works out with weights for three hours (he can lift 600 lbs.) on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; on alternate days he spends two hours throwing the shot in the basement of the Oregon gym, bouncing the plastic ball off a wall 55 ft. away. "And I'm forever knocking out the light bulbs in the ceiling," says Neal, "but they keep replacing them, so I keep on throwing...
...anybody's guess, although it is easy to suspect that their dialogue sounds like something out of a Pinter play. Vivien will ask a simple question, such as "Where shall I put the bookcases?" Whereupon Pinter, she says, "makes a long theatrical pause," and finally announces, "Against the wall." Their common preoccupation is their nine-year-old son Daniel, who has not seen Daddy's plays but has read Homecoming-to what effect...
...some 24,000 people now have nearly $1 billion worth of "deposits" in such funds. Studying twelve swap funds, the Wall Street firm of Arthur Wiesenberger & Co. found that their average per-share value declined 7% last year v. a 1.2% drop for capital gains-type funds and a 2.8% decline for growth funds. The participants scarcely mind. They range from moguls down to Sears, Roebuck employees retiring with large blocs of stock, and they are mostly interested in postponing that capital-gains bite while diversifying under professional management...
...nine from there, Earl went ahead 4-3 and had to win only one of the next two points to win his contest and the overall match. But Hamlin won the next point when his shot hit the poorly positioned Earl on the way to the front wall. Possibly upset, Earl then failed to return Hamlin's next serve and Penn had pulled out the victory, 18-17 in the fifth game of the ninth match...
...capitalists' future is highly problematical. During the current Red Guard rampage, angry wall posters have demanded an end to "high salaries, interest and dividends on investment." Carrying the slogans to the streets, youthful mobs have paraded men in dunce caps hung with placards reading "Dirty capitalists...