Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President and Mrs. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy St. as usual on the first Sunday of the month, Dec. 6, from 4 to 6 p.m., and will be happy to welcome members of the Faculties and others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives or husbands...
With the 1960 squash season opening Saturday, Harvard's team presents an impressive array of nationally-ranked veterans and boy wonders. And if Coach Jack Barnaby repeats his usual trick of producing men on the bottom who are almost equal to the number one player, the University's chances of walking off with the Eastern Championship are favorable indeed...
...once hoped aloud that he would live to be 92 (so that he could claim as many years as a private citizen as in public life), turned 91. But that was too close to 92, so he has now raised his goal to an even century mark. To the usual wearisome questions about his longevity, "Cactus Jack" Garner gave an unlikely answer: it seemed to have something to do with his daily custom of eating grapefruit. But some citizens of his home town, Uvalde, Texas, suspect that Garner did not really give up his cigars and whisky last year...
...provide a precalculated, controllable thrust. In the liquid rocket this is done by an intricate system of gas generators, pumps, valves, turbines and tubing. But this advantage is also a source of trouble, because failure of one or more of these intricate parts is the usual reason for the frequent liquid-rocket misfires...
...drew a bead on 1) highhanded Studio Boss Jack L. Warner, who spends much of his time commuting between Las Vegas and the Riviera; and 2) William T. Orr, Warner's son-in-law and the studio's hard-driving TV chief. The cowboys' beef: the usual Warner Bros, contract, which binds screen hopefuls to the studio for seven years at a predetermined salary, often prevents them from reaping the customary rewards of stardom, e.g., sharing in "residual" rights from rerun TV shows. If the actors make personal appearances, Warners pockets 90% to 100% of their earnings...