Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baker lost yardage to Jim Gorak, and Dave McKelvey lost a little more in the third slot. Anchor-man Trey Burns started way behind and just had no chance to catch the leader. Burns had a lot left when he finished his 1:53.0 leg 30 yards behind Fordham...
Tired & Unsettled. Police had closed off the streets of the tiny fortress colony, and motorcades whisked the two men unseen from the airport to the docks. There they climbed aboard an R.A.F. rescue launch and were taken to the cruiser H.M.S. Tiger, which was anchored half a mile offshore in Algeciras Bay. Dog tired, and somewhat unsettled by the heavy swells of the sea, Wilson and Smith met briefly in the wood-paneled captain's quarters of the Tiger, then went to bed. Two hours after dawn, the cruiser weighed anchor, wallowed out into the stormy straits and headed...
...release, Monday, Monday. Papa John Phillips, 25, an Annapolis dropout, is the group's songsmith, and what his lyrics lack in depth his melodies make up in lilting appeal. Phillips' wife Michelle, a willowy ex-model, is the spiraling soprano; Denny Doherty, 24, sings a secure tenor. Anchor girl is rotund (200 lbs.) Cass Elliot, 23, whose ringing contralto gives the quartet its oomph. Together they build a buoyant vocal blend that floats easily through intricate harmonic shifts, toying with rhythms that are as fresh and bracing as ocean breezes. The quartet is now on a highly successful...
...soldiers from the Philippine Civic Action Group?were setting up camp beside U.S. troops in the South Vietnamese jungles of Tay Ninh. American wounded, airlifted from Saigon, were being treated at hospitals outside of Manila, and U.S. fighting ships ?back on rotation from the Tonkin Gulf?lay at anchor in the palm-fringed Philippine harbor of Subic Bay. B-52 bombers from Guam swept past the Philippines before making their bomb runs over North and South Viet...
Cronkite was not long in getting the beast under control. In 1952, CBS News Director Sig Mickelson picked him to anchor the network's coverage of the national political conventions, and he did such a workmanlike job that he found himself in the top rank of newscasters. Suddenly he was a star. He began to have his own news shows-Twentieth Century and Eyewitness to History...