Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cooper and Conrad took these tribulations in good humor. They listened to Dixieland jazz beamed from Houston-Al Hirt trumpeting Muskrat Ramble, Birth of the Blues, Jada. Houston felt light enough to joke about speculation that Gemini 5 would fall short of its attempt to stay up eight days and have to come down before Sunday. Said Paul Haney, Gemini public affairs chief: "There has been consideration given here to playing Never on Sunday, but it was ruled out as inappropriate." Soon after, Houston cockily played the song...
...Oliver, who won nine pro tournaments between 1940 and 1959, was runner-up in the U.S. Open, the P.G.A. and the Masters. He put the first golf club in Frank Sinatra's hands, tutored Joe Louis, Adlai Stevenson ("Short but straight as a string"), Rocky Marciano, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Eddie Arcaro, and Sophie Tucker ("Anybody with a pair of hands like that...
...Westchester Embassy Club, at Grossinger's in the Catskill Mountains. His students included Steelman Charles M. Schwab ("The lousiest golf swing I ever saw"), and his reputation grew quickly. In 1953, as head pro at Miami's West View Country Club, Ross taught Cleveland Indians Third Baseman Al Rosen the fundamentals of golf. That summer Rosen clouted 43 homers, drove in 145 runs, was named the American League's Most Valuable Player-and credited his performance to "the hand action Ross Sobel taught...
Freeman fought back tooth and nail, wrote to every member of Congress, and denounced "the most bitter, most irresponsible, and most heavily financed attack ever aimed at farm and food legislation." Many Congressmen, while naturally leary of supporting anything that smacked of a bread tax, were al most as perturbed by Orville's increasingly vindictive attitude toward the baking industry. "We should bear in mind," cautioned Illinois' Republican Representative Paul Fintlley, "that Secretary Freeman's office often becomes a propaganda mill and his statements are not always reliable...
...backing the republicans, so if a swift solution is possible they should be the men to find it. In Cairo, where Egyptians are weary of a distant war that costs $1,000,000 a day in addition to thousands of casualties, there was a gush of exultation. The daily Al Akhbar printed a cartoon showing Nasser riding a white dove to his meeting with Feisal in Jedda...