Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another crack lefthander, New York Yankee's Whitey Ford, last week was one of disappointment. Going up against the Chicago White Sox with the best lifetime won-lost average (.715) and the best season record in either league (20-2), Ford suffered a tough loss, 2-1, ended a 14-game winning streak that began last June...
...Look at that. Perfect prone position.' " Her father, who died when Lenore was eleven, was a topflight competitive marksman; her mother has been firing smallbore rifles for 24 years, last year won the National Women's Any Sight Championship. Stepfather Marvin Driver is a crack pistol shot and longtime director of the National Rifle Association. Lenore's kid sister Candy, 16, is the 1960 U.S. junior champion, was runner-up last year to Lenore for the senior title...
Italy's ambitious Premier Amintore Fanfani has long yearned to take a crack at one of the most exasperating tasks of modern diplomacy: talking to Nikita Khrushchev. "He's hypnotized by the idea," said a friend. "He hopes that somehow he might bring back a great concession from Russia which will relax international tension." Last month Fanfani finally got his invitation. Hearing no nays from the Vatican, from his Western allies or from his Christian Democratic political supporters at home, last week he flew to Moscow...
...dawn hours one morning in November, three crack paratroop battalions moved out of their barracks in trucks, surrounded the presidential palace and opened fire on the surprised guards. The rebels had no intention of removing Diem, wanted only his promise to dismiss his cabinet, form a provisional military government, guarantee freedom of the press and step up the fight against the Communists. Diem agreed to all this as he dickered by telephone with the rebel leaders outside. But when loyal army units arrived to break the siege. Diem blandly watered down his promised reforms, sniffing, "It was nothing . . . a handful...
...College aims high. It will have a prestige campus, maintain Ivy League standards, borrow its tutorial system from Oxford. Already picked as president is energetic, Florida-born George F. Baughman, 46, a crack administrator who last week resigned as vice president and treasurer of New York University to take on his new duties. He has solid work ahead. To make New College's dream materialize, President Baughman aims to raise $10 million...