Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always had a flair for making waves, in the pool and out. The strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 150 Ibs.) daughter of a Sydney shipwright, now married to a bookmaker, she has broken 36 world records, won four Olympic gold medals. She was the first woman to crack 1 min. for the 110-yd. free style, the only swimmer of either sex to win the same event (the 100 meters) in three successive Olympic competitions. ("If I had been able to swim nude," she says, "I'm sure I would have broken the minute much earlier than...
...winds and percussion played extremely well, but the brasses had intonation problems, and an occasional crack. Only in some of the exposed passages of the third movement did the strings show what was probably the effect of too little practice outside of rehearsals. The bulk of the piece was so well put together, it was a shame to hear even one section without all the notes...
...officials used to shuttle to New York once a week on financing missions, but such trips are seldom necessary nowadays; they go to Wachovia. The bank's officials know their region well, and their formula for success is to stick to it. One bank officer recently had a crack at a multimillion-dollar piece of business in New York. He turned it down: too far north...
Died. Lady Lansdowne, 46, California-born wife of the Marquess of Lansdowne, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs in Britain's last Conservative government, an ardent hunter and crack shot who won the 1952 British women's clay-pigeon championship; of self-inflicted shotgun wounds suffered, apparently by accident, in the gun room of their Perthshire, Scotland, estate where her daughter Caroline, 17, died under almost identical circumstances nine years...
...surprisingly, the N.A.A.C.P. is appealing to the state's highest court. It is also working on other test cases, and is determined if necessary to give the Supreme Court a crack at California's constitutional conundrum...