Word: aced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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World War I Flying Ace Eddie Rickenbacker, 72, now board chairman of Eastern Air Lines, spoke to a conference of mutual casualty companies in Miami Beach, winged off with some jet-propelled gibes at: the U.N. ("The worst catastrophe that has hit the free world since World War II ... Let's sever relations with all those hypocritical blackmailers"); the Alliance for Progress ("In five years there will be a thousand more millionaires in South America, in ten years this will simmer down to a few hundred multimillionaires ... all of which is your money"). And finally: "Why do newspapers dignify...
...Thresher eludes both Trieste and the oceanographers' instruments, the Navy has one more ace up its gold-braided sleeve. It has worked out a scheme for scuttling the decommissioned submarine Toro near the place where Thresher sank. As Toro settles through the water followed by sonar beams, she will tell how the currents affect a sinking submarine. Her crushed hulk lying on the bottom, its position pinpointed, will tell the dogged Navy, as it continues its search, what Thresher should look like to oceanographic instruments...
...Yalies asked for it though, when they declined to use their best pitcher, Bob Kelly. Instead of their ace, the Ellis started Randy Egloff, a junior who displayed sinister intentions by striking out two in the first inning, but lacked the skill to last long against the Harvard artillery...
Crimson entries will probably win five events. Sprint ace Aggrey Awori should win both the 100 and 220 yard dashes, but he will face stiff competition in the latter from Oxford's Adrian Metcalfe, a former Olympian. Blodgett will probably edge Awori and Hank Hatch in the high and low hurdles, but Awori could easily win the broad jump if he is not too tired...
...running, sprint ace Aggrey Awori will face his stiffest competition of the indoor season from Dartmouth's Gerry Ashworth, who beat Awori twice indoors...