Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sprint relay is the baton pass-a complicated maneuver that must be accomplished blindly but precisely. Grambling's Coach Williams learned the secret from the British. Impressed by the fact that the British national team had beaten the U.S. in international competition, Williams studied movies of the teams in action. The Americans were faster, but they tended to slow down for the tricky pass, while the British made the transfer at full speed. The Americans also had a habit of waiting, hand low, palm down, trying to snatch the baton from their teammates. The British on the other hand...
...violence. That fact was demonstrated one night last week by the eerie glow of Klan crosses burning in a score of Mississippi communities. In Louisiana, TV Newsman Robert Wagner was seized by armed Klansmen as he tried to cover their secret meeting in a barn not far from Baton Rouge. He was forced to remove his trousers, lie in a poison ivy patch, where he was beaten with a belt before being shoved into a dog pen on a truck. Beaten again, he was released under a threat of death if he reported the incident...
...three front runners, Aggrey Awori, Keith Chiappa, and Tony Lynch traded the lead several times with their Cadet counterparts in fast, exciting duels. Anchorman John Ogden took the baton three yards behind, and even a 0:48.5 leg couldn't close...
Gold Dust Twins. Bernstein had the very touch Zeffirelli needed to complete a chef-d'oeuvre: under his baton, Verdi's wit and whimsy seemed ironic and sharp. He brought modern accents and strong colors to the aerial delicacy of Verdi's score, and drove the Met's orchestra at a pace that left the superb cast flushed and breathless...
...what she says often has insight. "I was a nice girl in a nice family in a nice house in a nice town, and I ran away from home because I was unhappy," she says with no apparent sense of incongruity. She arrived in New York ("If you leave Baton Rouge, you don't go to Cleveland") and began working as a model on Seventh Avenue, but quit after two months. "The garment center is a dirty place," she says. "It's all sweaty palms, yelling and screaming. They are not nice people. They are crass and they...