Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit, Romney opened the Tigers' first home game of the season, not in the usual fashion of lobbing a ball from a box seat, but by doffing his suit coat, donning a fielder's glove and going out onto the mound, where he fired off two fast balls to Detroit's Mayor Jerome Cavanagh. Then he retired to the stands to watch Detroit defeat the Kansas City Athletics...
...York's Economic Club, and then went to Washington for a brief but harmonious meeting with President Johnson. Unlike other recent visitors, Wilson did not offer to tell Johnson what he was doing wrong in Southeast Asia. Instead, there was complete agreement that the U.S. would stand fast in Viet Nam as would Britain in Malaysia. A top U.S. official said frankly, "Wilson's standing has been enhanced here. He's in command of the situation at home. He's on the upcurve of his political fortunes...
Resetting the Clock. Columbia University Astronomer Wallace J. Eckert and Graduate Student H. F. Smith Jr. of IBM's Watson Laboratory at Columbia began by analyzing the moon's orbit with IBM's fast-figuring computers. The moon's position has been observed with precision for 200 years, so there was more than enough data to feed into the machines. After they pondered electronically for several hundred hours, weighing the effects of the earth, sun, planets and relativity on the moon's orbit, the computers reported that in a three-year cycle the moon would...
...Lucky Debonair: the $30,400 Blue Grass Stakes, tune-up for this week's Kentucky Derby; at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. The heavy favorite at 3-10, Ada L. Rice's colt charged into the lead rounding the last turn, fought off Earl Allen's fast-closing Swift Ruler to win by half a length. In another Derby prep, Raymond Guest's Tom Rolfe, a son of Ribot, the Man o' War of Europe, raced to a 1 3/4-length victory over Native Charger in the Stepping Stone Purse at Churchill Downs...
Maxim number two is to ignore West Coast horses, no matter how solid they look on paper. In 91 years only one invader from California has been able to win the Derby--the great Swaps. It takes most equines quite a while to adjust from the lightning-fast strips in the West to the sandler racing surfaces in the Midwest and East...