Word: bushings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the Bushes. Raised on a farm outside of Tulsa, Sellers quit school at 16 to learn to handle thoroughbreds in Ken tucky, won his first race a year later at Florida's Sunshine Park. But after a fast start as an apprentice, Sellers became an also-ran who found mounts as best he could on the bush league rings of the Midwest. Then, three years ago, he married Janice Lyons, a trainer's daughter, and the two sat down to figure out what he was doing wrong...
Pets? Poet Gavin Maxwell, grandson of famed Natural Historian Sir Herbert Maxwell, has investigated them all: a lemur, a bush baby, a wildcat, a rail, five wild geese, a dozen tropical birds, a goat that jumped on the kitchen table, and a cow that strolled upstairs one day and almost gave birth on the landing. Otters, he proclaims in this lyric celebration of the beast he loved the best and of the wild Scottish coast they romped along together, are the greatest...
Harvard professors who signed the petition were Herschel C. Baker, J. N. Douglas Bush, Herbert Dieckmann, Wilbur M. Frohock, Albert J. Guerard, Howard Mumford Jones, Harry T. Levin, John M. Gaus, Oscar Handlin, David F. Cavers, Caleb Foote, Mark DeWolfe Howe, Kenneth V. Thimann, George Wald, Roderick Firth, John T. Edsall, Gordon W. Allport, Talcott Parsons, and Cedric H. Whitman...
Several sports news commentators in the East trumpeted the results of the poll, and reminded the Ivy Policy Committee that to many observers the present ban on spring practice is outdated, sissy, and bush. While the player opinion was being amplified, however, a significant fact was neglected: 43 out of the 55 had favored spring drills only if they were limited to freshmen. One must realize that reinstatement or continned denial of Ivy spring football is not a simple black and white matter -- even among the players there is considerable disagreement...
...concern echoed at U.N. headquarters over the Congolese central government's 1,600-man force gathered at Bumba by General Joseph Mobutu, apparently poised for an attack on Gizenga's Eastern province. To stop him, new U.N. Military Commander General Sean McKeown flew to Mobutu's bush headquarters, extracted a promise that there would be no invasion. This was highly convenient to the Gizenga regime, for, with Mobutu's immobilization now assured, they were ready for their dash deep into Kasai. The target was Luluabourg, just as the U.N.'s tipsters had been warning...