Word: caps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wearing a locomotive engineer's cap, Barry Goldwater took over the controls of his Whistle Stop Special in Logansport, Ind., guided the train on a brisk two-mile run down the line. That was about the only time Goldwater's campaign for the presidency seemed to be moving forward...
...minor infractions (unshined shoes, using the wrong fork), Cap'n Hop's punishment may be a fine. But for big ones, it's often off to Coventry: Ken Rosewall, who played on four Aussie Davis Cup teams, says that Harry has not even said hello to him since he turned...
...first objective the training of a man specifically for participation in democratic society, nonetheless its importance has hardly diminished. The generally educated man should be doing nothing less than preparing to organize his preceptions. He should learn what it is like to put on the scientist's thinking cap, or the behavioral scientist's, or the historian's, or the humanist...
When he realized that Phat's "coupette" had failed, he quickly sent his U.S.-built jets circling low over the capital to threaten the rebels. Meanwhile, a pair of C-47s (lent to him by the U.S. Air Force) whipped down to Cap St. Jacques, where two companies of South Vietnamese marines loyal to Khanh were waiting. Several battalions of loyal army troops were also ferried into Saigon, and the coup quickly dissolved...
...tremor to the skies, made a landing the pilot's mother called "soft as a marshmallow," and was welcomed to earth by a drum-and-bugle corps that sounded a fast fanfare. Gregory fidgeted; a bystander, he said, had fiddled with the plane's gasoline tank cap, but "there was nothing to worry about, I probably only lost two or three gallons...