Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record's second act gets the Beatles into deeper, more cross-currented waters. The first number, "Within You Without You" puts forward the Beatle manifesto to the tidal, wave-breaking sounds of an Indian raga. George Harrison chants his message, which is the Quintessence of Hippieism: "About the space between us all... and the love we all could share when we find it." At the end of the song comes a small gale of very self-satisfied laughter, which may be the "straight" people laughing at the idealistic, hippie message, or may just be a transition into the next...
...second rudder, which is actually a "trim tab," similar to an aileron on an airplane and is designed to increase her speed to windward besides making her more maneuverable. A second innovation is her skeg, or "kicker," an extension of the keel that is supposed to cut down wave turbulence and make her faster yet. But all that is underwater. What shows above the wa ter line is pretty radical too: a broken-nosed bow, a titanium-tipped mast, a $22,000 sail inventory that includes a 2,200-sq.-ft. nylon spinnaker that weighs barely 15.8 Ibs.-plus...
...traffic is piling up in the brokers' "back offices," where batteries of clerks clear transactions and update customer accounts. When the surge in trading volume turned into a tidal wave, a number of understaffed brokerages were soon trying to explain delays and trying to do something about botched paperwork. At Philadelphia's small Gerstley, Sunstein & Co., Partner Thomas McCann is finding that staffers who have been putting in 15-hour stints "can't do this day after day without a degree of fatigue and a rising incidence of errors." At Manhattan's big Bache & Co., Vice...
...only place to see the Massacre is in Boston. When Meeker Screams, Dirty Wops! all the micks in the audience cheer. Then the wops get their chance to whistle and wave spaghetti when Robards curses out the sons of Parnell. That was exciting...
Married. Jean-Luc Godard, 36, director of some of the French New Wave's most imaginative films (Breathless), and Anne Wiazemsky, 20, star in his forthcoming La Chinoise and granddaughter of Nobel prizewinning Academician Francois Mauriac; he for the second time; in Begnins, Switzerland...