Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Magician of Mon-tefredane, a small town near Naples, was wizard enough to get himself elected mayor. Occasionally, the magnetism goes too far, as in the case of a Milanese operator currently on trial for palming $17,000 paid by a noble lady to charm her lover back, a feat the magician was unable to perform...
...back more than 20 years into the record book to find a Harvard pitcher who bettered his feat of 115 strike-outs in 90 innings. Unlike most pitchers, he can hit, batting .286 in his first season and .273 last year. Those are hard marks to curpass, let alone equal, but if Park is the kind of mentor Norm Shepard was, he might find that talent in a pitcher...
Only two dozen sailors have duplicated Slocum's feat-and many of them like Britain's Sir Francis Chichester, made the most of the resulting publicity. Eddy belongs to a different crew. For him the most satisfying sport in the world is to shrink his world to the size of a cruising sailboat and to enjoy that world at leisure. Unlike Sir Francis, who made only one stop on his 275-day voyage, Eddy spent 51 casual years visiting some 400 ports...
...power. At the finish, the audience-which has been told only thai Peter Serkin is "indisposed" and knows nothing of what has gone on-gives Johansen a warm ovation. Ormandy-who knows all too well what has gone on-gives him a hug and kiss. Backstage, Ormandy describes the feat as "a miracle...
...Boeing Co. for a time backed the ESP researches of a theoretical physicist on its staff, Dr. Helmut Schmidt. Though ESP contradicts all known physical laws, Schmidt contends that certain gifted psychic subjects have consistently "outguessed" his electronic random number generator, in spite of extraordinary odds against such a feat...