Word: caps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walked up to the window and put two dollars on Red Beret. (His parents were Thinking Cap and Rebel Rose; that's where they got the name, I guess.) The odds were...
Faithful Eye. The 17th century German hunter was nothing at all like today's typical American sportsman, who tramps through the woods in wool cap and squishy boots, hoping for a lucky shot. Venery was as ritualized as the catechism. A clumsy hunter was publicly chastised by "blading," a ceremony in which he was forced to lie down across a dead stag and receive three swats from the flat of a broad knife. All the hard work was done by the peasants, who erected the high cloth barriers or rope nets into which bear or deer were driven...
Bolivian journalists have more to fear than tricky decrees. Alfredo Alexander, publisher of La Paz's morning Hoy and evening Ultima Hora, was with his wife at his elegant estate when a man with a visor cap and large dark glasses delivered a shoe-box-size package. It contained a bomb, and minutes later the explosion killed the couple, sending shock waves through city rooms across the continent...
...kind of blackout caused when Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan Bean inadvertently pointed his TV camera at the sun, the astronauts have been instructed to keep their color camera aimed at least 45° away from the solar disk. The Apollo 13 camera also is equipped with a lens cap and has a backup: a spare black-and-white model inside the cabin. Other improvements in their paraphernalia: antiglare visors, 8-oz. water pouches inside their suits ("Nice for wetting the whistle," Haise explains), backpacks to haul lunar samples (instead of the fancy Teflon bags that hooked to their sides...
...next big event in my day was riding to North Station with the Moody Blues concert crowd. When the car got to Government Center, it was jammed right to the doors, but I couldn't miss such a ride, so I forced my way on. Unfortunately, my box of Cap'n Crunch was somewhat crushed in the process, but it was fun. So much so that I returned to Government Center and took another crammed car to North Station. I was going back for more, but I noticed that the crowd was thinning, and I went to Dudley...