Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Above: Ropes moving on pulleys along parallel steel cables support Butler when he lands wrong side up or loses balance when practicing a new gyration...
...blackout which precipitated the student riot was caused by an engineer throwing the wrong switch in a power station at Pratt's Junction, about 50 miles northwest of Boston...
Many a listener, nerves frayed by the dissonances and the jerky jazzy rhythms he had just heard, sourly agreed. But time has proved audience and conductor wrong. Nobody has ever accused Aaron Copland of murder, even murder of harmony and counterpoint, and this week he reached his soth birthday the most-played and most-honored of living U.S.-born composers. From all over the world, his colleagues were letting him know...
Monkey Business. Why are the galaxies receding? Some cosmologists have suggested an enormous explosion that blew all the matter in the universe away from a common center. The chief thing wrong with this theory is that the galaxies are moving too fast; simple calculations show that^ they would have had to start their motion at a point so close in time that the whole universe would turn out to be younger than such minor parts as the stars and the earth...
This time they were wrong-dead wrong. They thought that by turning out all the lights they would create panic, chaos, widespread hysteria. Instead they played right into the hands of the people. Mild-mannered, respectable citizens were able to let themselves go for the first time since V-J day, to go out and do the things they always wanted to do. The little man was able to park his car in front of a meter and keep his pennies; he was able to punch that windbag who lives upstairs right in the mush without fear of retribution...