Word: bows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's early-bird election, "is mainly on the wane." But not even Democrats, as the results rolled in, were prepared for the size of their gain. Not only did Frederick G. Payne lose, as expected, to lanky (6 ft. 4 in., 185 Ibs.) bow-tied Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 44, the golden boy of Maine politics; Muskie, as the state's first popularly elected Democratic Senator, got double the plurality that he expected. And a train of Maine Democrats followed Muskie into power. Items: EUR| Second District Democrat Frank...
...Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology, shows he had his weather eye cocked more on September than on summer. "Columbia differs from Vim only in a matter of inches," says he. But inches are as vital to a racing hull as to a fashion model. Columbia's bow sweeps gracefully into a full-bodied hull-a shape that helps her go swiftly to windward against a running sea. Stephens' calculations show that Columbia should do her best in the heavy weather that often blows off Newport in late September...
...needed. But some British experts were grumbling that Scottish Designer David Boyd, 55, had made Sceptre too rugged. With a foot less waterline length (45 ft. v. 44 ft.), Sceptre's displacement is 68,000 Ibs. compared to 56,800 for Columbia. While Columbia's bow knifes through waves at the waterline, Sceptre bashes them with her barrel chest. Even British Helmsman Graham Mann guardedly admitted: "If she has a bias, it's toward the heavy side...
...eyes belong to a short, unshaven, portly young man with a Saragossa shock of black hair, a pair of plaid suspenders, a polka-dot bow tie, and the look of John L. Lewis with a beer bottle benignancy. His shoe-soles are worn to a sharp angle and he occasionally scratches...
...gowns and swimsuits, ate their breakfasts under the eyes of table-hopping judges (who watched for such lapses as overextended pinkies while holding a coffee cup). The contestants also sang, played musical instruments, recited. Miss Georgia (Jeannette Arlene Ardell, 19; 35½-24-36) punctured four balloons with her bow and only seven arrows; and Miss Maryland (Mary Roberta Page, 18; 36-24½-36) drew a horse in luminous chalk...