Word: aced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brouhaha had barely begun. In his first heat, Korean War Ace (seven MIGs) Bob Love averaged 410 m.p.h. -only to be placed third for cutting over three pylons, completely missing another. Then California's Darryl Greenameyer won his first heat, beating Slovak by 10 m.p.h.-and disqualified himself by landing on Reno's paved runway instead of Stead's dirt. Not that Greenameyer didn't try. Stripped of practically everything, including landing flaps, his silver Bearcat hippity-hopped all over the runway until he frantically poured on the power and took off again. Landing safely...
...Russian hospital, where perhaps with truth serum he could be induced to spill his technical secrets. Or perhaps Moscow agents simply wanted Schwirkmann out of Russia for good. If so, they probably succeeded, for the word from Bonn last week was that from now on West Germany's ace bug expert would probably do his fumigating elsewhere...
...second-place Chicago White Sox split with Detroit and beat Cleveland 6-5. The third-place Yankees lost two out of three to Los Angeles, mostly because they scored only six runs in 27 innings- none at all in the nine pitched by Los Angeles Ace Dean Chance, who won his 17th. But they rebounded against Kansas City 9-7. Hank Bauer's Orioles had all they could do to stay in first place. They took two out of three from Minnesota-one of them on a magnificent one-hitter by Miltiades Stergios Papastedgios-only to run into...
Alfred George Hinds, universally known as Alfie, was convicted of a $100,000 safecracking job in 1953, after being arrested by Herbert Sparks, former chief superintendent of Scotland Yard's ace flying squad. Passionately attached to liberty, Alfie tried to shorten his twelve-year sentence by escaping from jail three times, lost 13 appeals to the highest courts in the land. All this moved Sleuth Sparks, when he retired in 1962, to write a series of articles in the London Sunday Pictorial pooh-poohing Alfie's claims of innocence...
...engaged to marry pretty Olympic Skier Barbi Henneberger when she was killed in the April 12 Alpine avalanche that also took the life of U.S. Down hill Ace Bud Werner. And the memory of that tragic day is not growing any dimmer for Willy Bogner Jr., 22, son of the Bavarian stretch-pants manufacturer and a fledgling moviemaker. He has been indicted by a Swiss state prosecutor for homicidal negligence in Barbi's and Werner's deaths. Such cases usually receive light sentences, but, for the sake of assigning responsibility, the state expects to prove that...