Word: chucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rocket engine took its last gulp of alcohol, water and liquid oxygen, he was screaming through the sky at 1,900 m.p.h. (close to mach 2.9). far from his goal, but also far above the previous record of 1,650 m.p.h. set in 1953 by his friend, Major Chuck Yeager. Exactly 20 minutes after he had been cut loose from the B-50, Pete Everest, gliding toward the field, was overtaken by a supersonic F-100 that had been left far behind by his wild ride, and escorted to a dead-stick landing on the dry bottom of Muroc Lake...
...husked to her, twice nightly, the vintage tune Everything I Have Is Yours. Mae's beefcake troupe rolled on to Washington, D.C., and there the backstage tensions erupted last week at a 'tween-shows press conference. Scarcely had the interview begun when Biceps Boy (212 Ibs.) Chuck Krauser, Mr. California, took exception to Mickey's remarks and belabored Mr. Universe's face, mousing his left eye and dazing him. Mr. Universe, blue suede shoes splattered with his own blood, hung on to a door jamb. Crowed Mae of the groggy Adonis: "He's dangerous...
...varsity's top three, Bill McAllister, Captain Bob Ornsteen, and Brock Stokes, all played more erratically than usual. Alan Steinert, at five, held out until the 19th hole when he finally succumbed to basketball star Chuck Rolles...
...Yardling 'B' team had an easy time of it yesterday afternoon as they stumbled through a 19-8 win over New Prep. Bill Brannan and Chuck sailstad pitched, while Dave Fairburn formed the other half of the battery. The Yardling 'A's' oppose two more tough teams at the end of the week when they take on B.U. on Friday and Dartmouth on Saturday...
Only the varsity's number one man, Brock Stokes, lost, as his opponent, Chuck Fatum, carded the best score of the day--a par 36 on the first nine. In most of the other matches, the Crimson players won fairly easily...