Word: feats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday, at the end of an enviable feat of ecclesiastical commuting, The Right Reverend J. E. Lesslie Newbigin, Bishop of Madura and Ramnad, will have preached at Cambridge University, after delivering the William Belden Noble Lectures and last Sunday's sermon at Memorial Church...
Left to perform without the chorus, the dancers alternated "show" and serious numbers. Amy Greenfield's "Jungle Drums" dance was easily the most spectacular feat of the evening. requiring amazing subtleties of rhythm and control. And "Le Petit Mal De La Jeunesse," a portrait of teenagers today, danced by Penny Carver, Elizabeth Theiler, and Tom Glick, took the entertainment honors. The trio slid, slunk, crumpled and twitched to the beat of a jazz ensemble and Mark Mirsky's narrative...
College football's closest counterpart to Cleveland's Jimmy Brown is Richard Lee Bass, 189-lb. Negro halfback from little (enrollment: 1,670) College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. Playing his first full season without crippling injuries, Dick Bass has performed the considerable feat of becoming football's leading ground-gainer on a team that gives him little real blocking, has gained 700 yds. in six games (Pacific lost three of them). Last week as C.O.P. lost to Boston College 25-12, Bass returned the opening kickoff 72 yds., would have scored had not an official...
...international politicking. He talked long with U.S. Columnist Walter Lippmann, told a Brazilian journalist "we could supply Soviet machines and specialists to Brazil." In his most formal black hat he welcomed Polish Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka at the rainswept Byelorussian station for an important party visit. But his flashing feat of the week was bringing off an international propaganda coup in the Arab Middle East...
...Pioneer missed the moon and headed back to a fiery death in the earth's atmosphere. Still, the unprecedented shot was a historic success, especially because Pioneer's instruments flashed reams of new knowledge of outer space. Britain's top scientists called it "an amazing feat," "a most tremendous achievement." Paris' Roman Catholic daily, La Croix, echoed: "The most prodigious event in history." India's Nehru called it a "tremendous triumph of modern science," wagged: "I understand it has strayed from the straight and narrow path. Nevertheless the fact that it has been sent...