Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...championship sprint last weekend, Navy was favored to get off to an early lead with its power-stroking beat of around 40 strokes per minute, then fight it out at the finish with Harvard, which gets great drive from its rhythmic beat of 32. Instead, Cornell surged from the stake boats with a breathless beat of 41, moved ahead like a wide-open hydroplane. Once they had the lead, Cornell's ex-jayvees coolly dropped the beat to 31, understrok-ing even Harvard. Rowing against an 18-m.p.h. wind. Cornell held...
...Spanish-born (as Lucrecia Borjay Gonzalez de Riancho) Metropolitan Opera lyric soprano who began her Met career singing with Caruso, gave tender feeling to the roles of Mimi and Violetta, was a Met favorite for 24 years before retiring in 1936 while at her peak ("I want to finish while I am still at my best"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
Heavy Blow. As soon as the FAA confirms its findings, the company will begin modifications of the Electra (including 34 awaiting delivery). It hopes to finish by year's end. Lockheed Chairman Robert Gross predicted that the modifications will cost about $25 million. There was a chance that the airlines would assume part of the cost, rather than engage in a court battle with Lockheed to determine responsibility...
...himself came to the Lees' room for a private chat with his old friend. When it was over, Lee sent away all but one of his bodyguards. Lee Kang Suk told the guard: "Be around when I do what has to be done, and in case of need, finish me." At 5:40 the next morning, the guard heard shots from Lee's room. When police broke in, they found Lee, his wife and younger son sitting hand in hand on a couch, their heads thrown back by the shock of death. Lying across their bodies was that...
...Leonard Fruchtman's Bally Ache is a front runner who likes to take the lead at the starting gate, go for broke to the finish. Says one trainer: "He runs at you every step of the way. He's run on every kind of track and has beaten just about every horse they have led to him." Steel Executive Fruchtman picked up his horse for a bargain-basement price of $2,500, named him Bally Ache after the Jockey Club Commission turned down several other proposed names. Says Fruchtman: "I nearly got an ulcer before we named...