Word: feats
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Nothing for Teddy. The law works to the disadvantage of third parties, since they would receive only $1 for every vote they polled above 5,000,000 -a feat that no minor-party candidate has ever accomplished. In fact, under the current formula, even Teddy Roosevelt would not have got a cent for his Bull Moose campaign in 1912. Nor is Alabama's George Wallace likely to benefit if he becomes a third-party candidate...
Despite these glitches, the astronauts doggedly followed their flight plan, even repeated Gemini 11 's feat of flying in tethered formation with the undocked Agena. "If you want to have some fun," Aldrin radioed to ground controllers, "try doing this with two attitude thrusters out." The astronauts also dispelled a growing suspicion that good astronauts make bad photographers. Unlike many previous Mercury and Gemini photographers, who underexposed, fogged and even lost some of their film, Lovell and Aldrin brought back roll after roll of beautifully exposed movie and still pictures, including shots of the total solar eclipse taken...
State parks are not primarily intended to pay their way; their earnings are measured in the pleasure and recreation they give their visitors. But one California park now comes close to accomplishing the unusual feat of turning a profit: the Medicean headquarters that Press Grandee William Randolph Hearst began erecting at San Simeon in 1922, and which had grown to over 100 rooms when he left it at the outbreak of World War II. To create his dream castle, Hearst spent more than $30 million just in furnishing "La Cuesta Encantada" (the Enchanted Hill), equipped it with a private stable...
...into the cavalry, which was not expected to have as much brains as the infantry. Horses and the higher style of living required of a cavalry cadet would cost Lord Randolph an extra ?200 a year. Winston, high-spirited as always, had the nerve to express pleasure at his feat in getting into Sandhurst at all. His reward was a letter from his imperious papa which must rank as one of the nastiest ever written by a father to a son. After scolding Winston for his "slovenly happy-go-lucky harum-scarum style of work for which you have always...
...last month, riding alongside her was the nearly life-size bust of Mozart that accompanies her wherever she goes. She came to do him honor in the best way she knows how: by playing all 25 of his piano concertos in nine consecutive concerts, the first time such a feat has been undertaken...