Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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This Monkey Business is no great shakes as a work of art, except for an exquisite moment when Miss Rogers drops a goldfish down Charles Coburn's pants. There is a lot of running around and yelling, some funny, some not; Coburn sits on a pie, and squirts water in various directions; Marilyn Monroe, impersonating a blonde secretary, tells Grant, "Mr. Oxley's been complaining about my punctuation, so I've been careful to get here before nine"; the thing ends with Grant and Miss Rogers in a snugly marital clinch...
...season record to 6-4-1, and evened its Ivy mark at 1-1, but more significantly, gave promise that at last the team is ready to cope with the best the East can offer. The varsity will not meet a better center than Clarkson's Mel Tomalty, except for B.U.'s Bob Marquis, but against the Crimson, Tomalty looked like a man deserted by his last friend...
Worst problem was how to deal with the hot, corrosive, high-pressure fuel, which is fiercely radioactive as it comes from the spherical cell and cannot be handled or even observed except by special, remotely controlled devices. By ingenuity and careful engineering, Dr. Weinberg's staff managed to tame this lethal brew. His report proudly announced that "the reactor cell has been sealed with the circulating pumps running uninterruptedly for 1,600 hours (67 days), a feat which begins to approach the longest uninterrupted runs of any power reactor...
...Except for an occasional meeting or special conference, the walnut-paneled office on the 24th floor of Tribune Tower in Chicago has been vacant for five years. The huge marble-topped desk behind which daily rose the gorge of the morning Tribune's high-cholered publisher, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, is gone, replaced by a more modestly proportioned desk of wood. Unofficed, the colonel's ghost still walks restlessly through the Tower, but the paper has changed since that April day in 1955 when Bertie McCormick died...
Throughout the balloting, Councillors Lynch and Sullivan voted for Sullivan, who received two votes except when Trodden's ballot gave him three...