Word: checker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Checking the Checker. Across the finish line he sped, slowing almost to a stop when an official gave him the checkered flag of victory. In the pits, Chapman screamed and waved a sign with a big number 1 on it. The official had goofed: Clark still had a lap to go, and Surtees was closing in. Furious. Jimmy stomped down the throttle; the Lotus snarled around the track once more, coasted into the pits-the winner by a comfortable 31 sec. "Imagine," sighed an awed South African fan, "what Clark could do if he were feeling...
Fiedler puts things together with an unerring knack for creative programing and a repertory of close to a thousand selections from Bach to Chubby Checker. With exuberant ease, the maestro and 90 members from the Bos ton Symphony Orchestra achieve what many of their imitators are still striving for-popularity for Pops...
...shiny black Checker limousine skimmed along Vientiane's pitted streets like a water beetle supported by surface tension. There was plenty of tension in the Laotian capital, but the burly, brush-browed man in the car did not show it. U.S. Ambassador Leonard Un ger was at his unflappable best as he coordinated the search for two downed American aviators and pressed the case for fighter escort to accompany continuing U.S. reconnaissance flights over the Plain of Jars. The ambassador stopped by a cocktail party to talk with a rightist leader, then dropped in on Premier Souvanna Phouma...
Outside, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 61, winces at the blast of heat that is already approaching 90° with 90% humidity. With a Vietnamese plainclothes bodyguard, he climbs into the back seat of a Checker Marathon sedan. The car rolls past barbed-wire stanchions, stops 15 minutes later in front of the ugly U.S. Embassy building at 39 Ham Nghi Boulevard. There, barricades block sidewalk passersby, while barbed wire funnels visitors past South Vietnamese soldiers into a lobby guarded by U.S. Marines...
Married. Chubby Checker, 22, Negro rock 'n' roller who started the ball writhing a couple of years ago when he made the twist the dance of the hour; and Catherina Lodders, 21, devastating (37-23-37) Dutch model, Miss World of 1962; in a ceremony performed by the white pastor of the Temple Lutheran Church of Merchantville, NJ. The surprise guest turned out to be Chubby's mother, Mrs. Eartie Evans, who had opposed the interracial marriage at first but finally came round, deciding "if I couldn't beat them, I'd join them...