Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of famed Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, were paid $170 a week per man for the 25-week season-a figure that has gone up only $11 in the past eight years. This is $10 less than New York Philharmonic musicians get for a far shorter work week: 19 hours, against the Met's average of 45 hours...
...badly spiked right knee, he broke Jesse Owens' 25-year-old outdoor broad jumping record of 26 ft., 8¼ in. Then, in rapid succession, he shattered Owens' 24-year-old Olympic mark, became the first man ever to leap 26 ft. indoors (where the runways are shorter) and the only one to jump 27 ft. outdoors. Fortnight ago, in Moscow, Boston jumped 27 ft, 1¾ in. to set a new world record for the third time in eleven months...
...CHRYSLER. Both the Plymouth and the Dodge Dart are completely redesigned, are shorter and narrower on the outside, but not appreciably changed in interior size. Both have long, low hoods and short, sloping rear decks. The Dart has abandoned its curly rear fin for an unadorned, clean rear-fender line, has changed its concave grille to a flat one with a forward thrust. The pizazz model, Polara, will come out only in two-door hardtop and convertible models. Both Dodge and Plymouth retain their 1961 engines but will seem a lot livelier because they are 300-400 lbs. lighter. Plymouth...
...Most are too long (the shorter the better, but 20 in. is a practical maximum), too large (internal diameter should be no more than 3/16 in.), and made of thin-skinned rubber...
Misty (20th Century-Fox) is as long on sentiment as most horse pictures, but mercifully shorter on plot-it may be the first children's film made completely without benefit of villainy. The setting is the tiny island of Chincoteague, off the coast of Virginia. Near by is another island, Assateague, where herds of wild ponies live. Each year the Chincoteague volunteer firemen round up the ponies, swim them to their island and sell the foals. Paul Beebe (David Ladd). a spratling who lives on Chincoteague with his sister Maureen (Pam Smith) and a couple of story book grandparents...