Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power. U.S. Presidents have generally managed less condescending personal friendships while in office. Both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower had the easy company of George Allen, an adept poker player and raconteur. Dave Powers served as a sort of White House entertainer under John Kennedy, accompanying the President to ball games and cracking Boston Irish gags to relax...
...Ohio man had to register a homemade howitzer that he uses to shoot cement-filled beer cans at trees he wants felled. Boise State College had to register the cannon that celebrates its foot ball team's touchdowns. A retired military man in Washington, D.C., listed two antitank guns. Miami officials registered a pistol made from a brier pipe. Boston discovered a 3.5-in. rocket launcher. Honolulu agents collected seven Chinese machine guns from G.I.s who were returning from Viet Nam. An Idaho farmer registered a fully assembled 90-mm. antiaircraft gun that he employs in a potato field...
Desperate to get the ball back, Harvard tried an obvious onside kick-and made the recovery. Back rushed Cham-pi; on first down, unable to find anyone to pass to, he scrambled 14 yds. to the Yale 35. A face-mask penalty on the tackle took the ball down to the 20. More important, it stopped the clock. A draw play gained 14 yds., but then Champi lost 2 yds. trying to pass. The clock read 3 sec.; time for only one more play. Back again dropped Champi, frantically dodging tacklers, searching for a receiver. Just as he was about...
...knee is also one of the weakest and most vulnerable joints in the human body-as two of football's most talented practitioners discovered this month. Notre Dame Quarterback Terry Hanratty tried to take the ball around end on an option play, and ran head-on into two tacklers. One hit him high, while the other pinioned his left leg. Snap went a ligament in Hanratty's left knee, and that was the end of his season. Four days later, the Chicago Bears' breakaway halfback, Gale Sayers, hit similar trouble when he tried to turn the corner...
...name suggests, the nine-banded armadillo is encased in nine bands of armorlike plate. When alarmed, it curls into a nearly impenetrable ball or jumps straight up into the air. It spends much of its time burrowing holes in the earth; after swallowing air to increase its buoyancy, it is at home in the water too. But the strange beast has an even more remarkable characteristic: it normally gives birth only to quadruplets...