Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very interested in your article "Once More, Trouble in Berlin" [Feb. 21]. It was lucid and provocative; but you say, "Yakubovsky has a Btfsplkian habit of turning up just before something big happens." Who or what is "Btfsplkian?" Is it from Catch-22 or a recent novel? Please set me straight. I may not sleep for fear of Yakubovsky turning up in D.C. in some Jekyll guise. God forbid...
...critics of the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was solely responsible for Kennedy's death, District Attorney Jim Garrison's performance was a crashing letdown. The state produced no evidence whatever, as Big Jim had said it would, linking Shaw with Oswald's murderer, Jack Ruby. Though it found eyewitnesses who claimed that the fatal gunfire came from directions other than the Texas School Book Depository, where Oswald was stationed, no witness purported to have heard shots from more than one location -another Garrison assertion. One eyewitness to the Shaw "plot," New York...
Most of the new towns that have gone up so far have been purely private efforts, often backed by insurance firms or big industrial corporations that can afford the enormous outlays required to assemble large land parcels and install the roads, sewers, power lines and other unprofitable facilities that must be built before residents can begin moving...
...free featured the third Harvard sweep of the day and dealt a crucial blow to the Big Green's hopes. Dartmouth captain and All-American Terry Robinson was matched against Powlison and Krause. Powlison took an early lead, followed by Robinson and then Krause. At the 300-yard point, Krause passed Robinson. Robinson never rallied, and Harvard's two ace sophomores scored a decisive victory, with Powlison first...
Barnaby, wary of the fact that his three toughest matches--Navy, Penn, and Princeton--were all away, had insisted on using a different type ball from the one Harvard had to use against Navy the day beforehand, when Peter Abrams' chronic back ailments sidelined him the day before the big match. These factors, coupled with the fact that Penn had one of its most powerful squads in years, resulted in Harvard's first loss to the Quakers...