Word: 71st
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...prepared to jump, just like a mountain sheep from one jag to another." The speaker was in a position to know: he was Dwight Eisenhower in the retirement of his Gettysburg farm, talking for ten filmed hours with TV Newsman Walter Cronkite. Last week, marking Ike's 71st birthday just after he had been given a high bill of health after a physical examination, CBS televised the first of three hour-long shows edited from the conversations. It provided some fascinating and meaningful footnotes to recent presidential history. Items...
Firing a remarkably steady 72-67-72-70 for a one-over-par 281, Hebert laid a five iron 8 ft. from the pin on the 71st hole, sank his putt for a birdie, and coasted to the clubhouse, victor by a stroke over 45-year-old Jim Ferrier. His prize: a record $11,000, wrested from the nation's best pressure golfers...
...Like Centipedes." A volunteer shopped for a regiment in those gentlemanly days. Indeed, a man of means could recruit his own in a saloon and make himself colonel. Private Post picked the 71st Infantry, a regiment heavily manned with flask-toting, city-bred New Yorkers. No one needed to be caught alive or dead in olive drab; the uniform was a brilliant cerulean blue with a flashy stripe down the trouser leg. The training grounds were the fields of Hempstead, Long Island. The close-order drill came from Gettysburg and Waterloo, and the chow seemed almost as old. Writes Post...
Tournament of Roses Parade (NBC, ABC, 11:30 a.m.-l:45 p.m.). The 71st annual pre-Bowl festivities, with Richard Nixon as grand marshal. In color...