Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin with, the four-month-long elimination rounds were riddled with demeaning incidents. South Africa's apart heid prompted Poland and Czechoslovakia to withdraw, and the Great Britain-South Africa series was marred by riots. After Spain had been eliminated, the country's outstanding player, Manuel Santana, was convicted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. The Rumanians, coached by wily Australian Harry Hopman, stirred some interest by out lasting 49 other nations to become the first Communist country to compete in the Cup finals...
Flying high over Baltimore last week, two Martin 404 airliners hurtled toward each other on what seemed like a sure collision course. Seconds before disaster, the planes suddenly veered apart. One swept upward; the other dipped slightly. So coolly had the maneuver been executed that it seemed as if an invisible electronic hand had guided the controls...
...ears with a blunt amplifying instrument. A hard-rock Modcom musical gives a theatergoer an acoustic third degree. His eardrums are refunded on the sidewalk. However, the test of a good musical score remains unvarying: not whether one can hum the songs but whether one can tell them apart. Hair has a beguilingly individuated score; Salvation does...
...Apart from its manifold defects, Salvation, like all Modcom products, trades on the residual puritanism behind its ostensibly anti-puritan outlook. A people at ease with sexuality, and casually and thoroughly iconoclastic, would not pay good money to see an inept affirmation of a puerile paganism...
...Apart from the new small and sporty cars designed to frustrate the fast rise of imports, the 1970s look like and are much like the 1969s. In the year of déjà vu, the only completely redesigned full-sized car is the Lincoln, which, among other things, now has a body bolted to the frame for a quieter ride. Several cars have more powerful engines; the biggest of all is the Cadillac Eldorado's, at 500 cu. in. The Plymouth Barracuda is one of the few cars that have had enough sheet-metal changes to give...