Word: aceing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patrons at Manhattan's Shoe Biz at Bendel are as fond of the red patent chunky-toed, chunky-heeled style as they are of the white version; it has a platform as high as its heel and is wrapped over and over with what appear to be Ace bandages. Not all monsters are sandals, of course. Some are sturdy leather brogues with heels extending beyond the back of the shoe; others have tongues that take their licks at the ankles, leaving even the slimmest tarsus looking like a giant redwood...
...fiction. TIME Correspondent John Shaw, visiting one base, described them as members of "an orange-juice air force that seldom drinks except when occasions like a promotion, new baby or visiting dignitary call for everyone to knock back a Scotch." Pilots are rarely publicized, even though a ranking ace has now shot down eleven Arab planes. The reason for anonymity is not so much to prevent any personality cult as it is to keep the Arabs from learning who the aces are. During the '67 war five Israeli pilots were killed by Arabs after bailing out of crippled planes over...
...contract to drive Plymouth's new 'Cuda this year. Gurney's company. All-American Racers, has two cars, one for Gurney, and another for his young protege, Swede Savage. With a name like Swede Savage, you have to be good or you wouldn't be able to show your ??ace around a race track. Dodge's Challenger, basically the same as the 'Cuda, is being campaigned by the Autodynamics Corporation, from Marblehead. Sam Posey, one of the new stars on the U.S. racing scene, is the driver...
With Harvard tightly entrenched in first place. Coach Bill McCurdy is not worried that neither ace miler Roy Shaw nor Penn Relay steeplechase record setter Dave Pottetti will enter today's running events. "Northeastern is the only team with any running potential." McCurdy said, "and at the moment they're back in fifth place with only three points...
...Crimson's top man, junior Bill Washauer, was dumped by Lion sophomore Dong Grunther, who lost in straight sets to Princeton's Bobby Goeltz last week. And at three, Chris Nielsen dropped his match to Columbia's Ace Baumgold, who also lost in straight sets at Princeton...