Word: fin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). It's man against fin, fang and claw as Bing Crosby and Joe Brooks fish for English Atlantic salmon, Rex Allen rounds up Oklahoma rattlesnakes, and Archer Fred Bear hunts Alaskan polar bears...
...bring it up to date, the Bushmaster will sport more powerful engines, enlarged cockpit windows, a lighter and stronger aluminum-alloy skin, a foot-operated hydraulic replacement of the old Tri-Motor's hand-operated "Johnny Brake," a larger stabilizer and a dorsal fin to reduce yaw, modern trim tabs, and interior rather than exterior control cables...
...control. Last week Arfons was at Bonneville to regain the record he lost last year when Craig Breedlove clocked 600 m.p.h. in his own jet car, Spirit of America. Art was confident that he had licked Green Monster's handling problems by adding a hydraulically operated "spoiler," or fin, designed to counteract the torque overload that had caused the blowouts...
...addition to the glittering Senate victories of Chuck Percy and Bob Grif fin, the voters re-elected a phalanx of Republican regulars: Iowa's Jack Miller, Kansas' James B. Pearson, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, Nebraska's Carl Curtis. Indeed, it was a boomerang attempt by Lyndon Johnson to dislodge Curtis that led to one of six gubernatorial victories in the region...
...BIRDS FALL DOWN, by Rebecca West. To her nonfictional catalogue of traitors, Dame Rebecca in her sixth novel has now added the imaginary figure of a double agent, plying his unscrupulous trade in fin de siècle Europe...