Word: bend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even CURV went round the bend. After attaching two claws to the bomb's parachute lines, it got hopelessly tangled trying to attach a third. Exasperated, Guest decided to try hauling up the whole conglomeration-bomb, parachute, CURV and all-while the weather still held fair. Luckily, CURV somehow disentangled itself on the way up, and the rest of the recovery went off without a hitch...
From San Antonio, Lady Bird and her entourage, 70 strong, flew to the desert mountain fastnesses of Big Bend National Park, where she was greeted by a crowd of 4,200, including, one local noted, "every living critter around here." So stark and jagged that astronauts have visited it to see what they will encounter on the moon-yet fiercely beautiful withal-Big Bend receives far fewer visitors than most other national parks, was thus a prime spot for one of the First Lady's See America First promotion trips...
With a doctor beside her to treat possible rattlesnake, tarantula or scorpion bites, Secret Service men and rangers nearby to fend away any stray panthers or bobcats (Big Bend counts 28 species of snakes and 60 different species of animal), Mrs. Johnson hiked up the Lost Mine Trail for a look across the Rio Grande. She ate dinner beside a campfire at sunset, listened to Western songs from local troupes and genuine tall tales by a folklorist imported from the University of. Texas...
...Bend had not seen such commotion since Pancho Villa tromped over the border in 1916, and it was hardly prepared for the crush. Extra telephone lines and fast-transmission Telex machines were jammed into ranger headquarters at Panther Junction to handle press copy, and a car stood ready to rush outgoing material to the airstrip 120 miles away. For Lady Bird's five-hour raft journey through the wild gorges of the Rio Grande, rangers had floated box lunches, soft drinks and coffee, and portable toilets to the sand bar where the party was to stop for lunch...
...windswept Thames River. Forced to find a substitute boat after their No. 1 shell collided with a buoy and sank during practice, the Cambridge rowers battled the favored Dark Blues bow-to-bow for 3 mi. of the 4-mi., 374-yd. race. Then, at the last bend, Oxford Coxswain James Rogers steered straight across the Cambridge bow, forcing the Light Blues to check as Oxford pulled away...