Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zambia, causing President Kenneth Kaunda nervously to declare a state of emergency and order his own small army to dig in on the other side "as a protective measure." Although the chances of a clash seemed slight, it was just the sort of ugly situation that through some unexpected fluke might lead to violence-and a need for British troops...
...strictly a two-girl race-with Martha third. Then she began to sprint, flashed past Ramenofsky, overhauled Caretto in the last lap, and drew out to win by 2.5 sec. Her time: a record-smashing 4 min. 39.2 sec. Next day, just to prove it was no fluke, Martha also won the 200-meter freestyle, cracking a U.S. record in the process. Sighed Martha: "One more year, and then I'll quit...
...moorings, and tons of perishable produce piled up on the docks. Even the most seasoned local merchants panicked. Not canny Russell Sage. At giveaway prices he snapped up three of the crippled, empty sloops, stacked them with cargoes, then settled back to wait. Sure enough, the freeze was a fluke. The ice melted overnight, and Sage sailed off for New York where he made a $50,000 killing. At 24, he operated a fleet of riverboats and a private moneylending business, was a bank director, city councilman, and creditor to two of New York's biggest Whigs: Editor Thurlow...
...from the record set in 1963 by Australia's Ron Clarke; at the national A.A.U. track and field championships in San Diego, where the team to meet the U.S.S.R. at Kiev this month was chosen. Proving that his astonishing 10,000-meter victory in the Olympics was no fluke, Mills held off a strong challenge from Washington State's Gerry Lindgren, 19, who matched him stride for stride through a bristling 58 sec. final quarter-mile before Mills breasted the tape barely inches ahead. Timers called it a dead heat, and both will get the record, join other...
...looked as though nothing short of a complete transfusion could help the slumping Yankees. Last week they dropped both ends of a doubleheader to Baltimore, and proved that it was no fluke by losing 2-1 in an exhibition next day against their cross-town baby cousins, the New York Mets. (The Mets had prepped for the game by losing six straight in the National League.) Then the Yanks shuffled off to Cleveland to swap condolences with an old friend, Pitcher Ralph Terry, who won 76 games for the Yanks before he was traded to the Indians last October...