Word: decks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high on takeoff. But Jenkins and his crew of six mechanics make sure that the resemblance is only paint-deep. To prepare the car for its ordeals, the team marinates its body in an acid bath to eat away 120 Ibs. of excess weight. The hood and rear deck are replaced with lightweight Fiberglas panels. His $70,000 engine produces nearly 650 h.p. against a normal...
There were no speeches, no red carpets, and the Navy band played for only about a minute. After their splashdown on target in the Pacific 225 miles southwest of San Diego last week, the three astronauts were whisked to the deck of the recovery carrier New Orleans. Then, wobbly but smiling, they were guided by NASA doctors a few steps to waiting chairs and quickly carted off atop a moving platform for medical examinations. The return of Skylab 2 Astronauts Alan Bean, Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott was in fact so subdued compared with past homecomings that...
...Marine sergeant marshaling a troop of Cub Scouts, and when that fails, she invokes the aid of the Deity. "God'll getcha for that," she warns those who cross her. She is a fighter who takes on city hall, featherbedding repairmen and department-store complaint departments. She can deck an adversary with an arch of a single brow as surely as with an adder-tongued retort like last week's explanation of a black eye: "I was jumping rope-without...
...other top candidate is Roger Hoefer, a 6 ft. 3 in., 190 pound back. Last year Hoefer was shuffled around by the coaching staff more than a deck of cards at a poker game. He started on defense and in midseason was shuttled over to offense. This year, if he is allowed to stay at one position long enough to get a feel for things, he could excell. After Allen and Hoefer there isn't much to choose from Prospects for FULLBACK look FAIR...
Outside in the bright sun, the fair beckons in every direction. A middle-aged woman in a purple dress directs a dozen kids playing accordions in unison. A youth in a Fu Manchu mustache does card tricks to show how you can cheat with a shaved deck; he then offers shaved decks for sale...