Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard varsity trackmen should provide another four first-places for the Americans. Captain Wayne Andersen, the only returning winner from the meet here two years ago, should leave Hauk in the dust in the 100-yard dash. In the discus, Bruce Hedendal has been a consistent winner for Harvard all year and is superior to the English tossers. If hemeets opposition, it will come from teammate Ron Wilson, who, according to McCurdy, has developed remarkably in practice. During the season Wilson's best tos was 161-3 3/4; now he is regularly...
...itching to get a look at the frontier. "You can climb into an ancient, wheezing taxi and make it known by various gestures that you want to go 'to the front,' " reports Rademaekers. "Off you go in the general direction of Suez in a billowing cloud of dust, accompanied for three hours by the weakening wail of the horn. In the end, you are usually delivered to a police station, where you are politely offered coffee and firmly told to go back to Cairo. In many ways, it is similar to the war between India and Pakistan, which...
Take the scene at Christie's last week. Gathered in a reverent circle for a pre-auction sampling was a handful of collectors, rich young men, food snobs and knowing oenophiles. Before them was a small, gray-green, hand-blown bottle. Carefully the dust of two centuries was wiped clean, the hard wax seal was delicately chipped from the neck, and with surgical precision the ancient cork was drawn in one piece. Then a thimbleful of bright, golden liquid was poured into a small, tulip-shaped glass. A patrician sniff, a twirl of the glass, the first...
...least for the time being; in fact, hardly a shot was fired in anger all week along the tense borders. Damascus radio called on all Arabs "to undertake the liberation battle that will tear the hearts from the bodies of the hateful Jews and trample them in the dust." Said Radio Cairo...
...longtime head of Philip Morris, Inc. as president (1945-49) and board chairman (1949-57); of cancer; in Stamford, Conn. An ebullient Britisher, Lyon arrived in the U.S. in 1912 and swiftly showed his Yank cousins what the word salesman meant, getting dealers to push Philip Morris by helping dust their shelves, paying college students to pass out free smokes to friends, sweet-talking nightclub ciggie girls into handing customers only Philip Morris when they'd ordered another brand; by 1933, he was the company's vice president for sales and there created one of the world...