Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yankee Slugger Roger Maris turned up in Rochester, N.Y., to accept the $10,000 S. Rae Hickok belt, awarded annually to the Professional Athlete of the Year. Maris would not say what he plans to do with the belt-but its 2¾ lbs. of gold and 27 diamonds should keep him in hamburgers until he gets around to signing his 1962 Yankee contract...
...operates like a huge, carpeted Escalator without steps. An upward-moving belt covered with a rug of white Caprolan fiber makes a ski area approximately 20 ft. by 55 ft. Wearing 30-in. "shortee" skis, the skier pushes off from the top of the platform, makes headway against the moving belt, which literally pulls the rug out from under him at speeds that can vary to simulate different slopes and snow conditions. The pile in the rug is thick enough to act something like snow, permitting the skier to execute all the standard turns...
...face, U.S. officials announced that "administrative snags" caused the delay. The U.S. aim: to make Phoumi and Boun Oum go to Geneva for more talks with the permanent international conference on Laos. But Phoumi was not about to buy a plane ticket for Geneva without a fight. In a belt-tightening measure to safeguard his dollar reserves, he ordered the National Bank of Laos to stop exchanging dollars for Laotian kip. The black market price for the dollar promptly jumped from 80 to 150 kip, and food prices spiraled. He floated rumors of dollar loans from other sources, announced...
...presidency-"and he has certainly not disappointed anyone in this respect." They knew well that "for understandable political reasons" Kennedy would not emphasize his Catholicism, and indeed he has not. A photograph of the President with a cardinal "would cost Mr. Kennedy 10,000 votes in the Bible belt in 1964." whereas pictures of him with Billy Graham "are pure 14-carat gold, to be laid away at five percent interest till the day of reckoning in 1964." This kind of poll-watching calculation. Father Davis argues, may not be very courageous, but Catholics generally "are not troubled...
...charges about Harvard's role in the Inner Belt controversy came at the first day of hearings on a bill to repeal the veto power over Federal highway construction given to Cambridge and other Massachusetts communities last year. Toomey vigorously opposed revocation of the veto power in his speech Tuesday...