Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force that landed on Haiti's southern coast four months ago. Operating independently of other scattered bands in Haiti, they ambushed troop columns, encouraged peasants to defy their Duvalier overseers. Papa Doc had no trouble finding out who they were; in tiny Negro Haiti, the word gets around fast by telediol grapevine...
...QUARTERBACK: Craig Morton, 21, University of California, 6 ft. 4 in., 215 Ibs. California had a dismal 3-7 record this year, but the scouts couldn't care less; nearly all chose Morton as their first-string QB. "You name it, he can throw it-short, long, fast, slow, drop back, roll out, standing up or falling down." Running close behind Morton is unbeaten Alabama's Joe Namath, 21 (6 ft. 2 in., 194 Ibs.), who has been handicapped this season by a banged-up knee but is still rated "the best drop-back passer in college." Another...
...runners harrying and extending each other until finally, in that last agonizing sprint to the tape, one man finds some unknown reserve of energy and will power. Poor Peter Snell. At 25, the burly New Zealander is so much better than anyone else that he may never know how fast he can really...
...high school is a good one, and the mingling there of children from varied social stratifications is generally thought to be working out well for all concerned. The trouble is that in a school of 1,018 pupils so near New York there is bound to be a fast set of hard-shell hippies like Alpert who seem utterly glamorous to more sheltered types. As one Darien mother sighed last week: "It's hopeless. We're just nothing but a part of New York-that...
...Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall this month, with the accent on works of "special interest" from Bach to Berg, Scherchen displayed an attack that was clean, intense and boldly original. He braked tempos to the creeping point, intertwining each contrapuntal strand with meticulous care, then revved up the fast movements until the musicians were fairly bouncing off their chairs. To critics' charges that some interpretations were flawed by "exaggerations," Scherchen icily replies: "It is very fine if a man knows absolutely how it should be. I don't know...