Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bert Lance's continuing ties with his old friend Jimmy Carter are well known in the U.S., but on foreign trips the former budget chief can flash more tangible evidence of his White House clout: a diplomatic passport bearing the serial number X-000065 and the assertion, "The bearer is abroad on a diplomatic assignment for the Government of the United States of America." As it happens. Lance's most recent missions abroad, including a trip to London and the Middle East to help Arab interests angling for control of a $2.2 billion bank holding company in the Washington...
...grandfather Francis (Josef Sommer), who founded the shop 80 years before, was a bicycle nut. One surrealistically fun ny sequence has the grandfather (in flash back) learning the manual of arms for bicycle troops from a World War I sergeant...
Even when performed amid the Naugahyde and flash of Las Vegas, sport can serve a kind of liturgical function. It becomes a parable: those few athletes who are gifted with a certain magic become proof of the splendors that the body can achieve-the feats of grace, strength, speed, skill, stamina. But the athlete's half-life is so short; his decline and failure become a model of the mortality in everyone...
...McCarthy, the Lisbon Flash(er), agreed with Harvey that participation and fun combined with good basketball are the main reasons he played with the Classics. He also said yesterday "I have been able to develop personally. We've given moral support to needy convicts, and helped out at basketball clinics in Portugal...
...distance freestyle events, no one is near the Yonkers flash. His 1000-yd, freestyle NCAA record time of 9:02.05 is 12 seconds better than anyone in the nation, 33 seconds better than anyone in the East (Harvard's Michael Coglin is second at 9:35.57), and 41 ticks better than Princeton's best man. Hackett's 4:27.75 mark for the 500 free is second in the nation and miles ahead of anyone in the East...