Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever its propaganda value to the Cubans, Che's 60,000 words are hardly an advertisement for making revolution in Latin America. They are full of jotted references to distances, heights, menus, petty quarrels and his own physical ailments?flatulence, a foot sore and his ever-bothersome asthma?much of which makes little sense in its relatively unedited form. There is also quite a bit of the absurd in the day-by-day notations: at the height of the campaign, Che commanded fewer than 50 men, and his skirmishes with the Bolivian army were so indecisive that he carefully counted...
...demonstration of a laser distance-measuring device, Spectra-Physics, Inc. flew the instrument over a Philadelphia high school stadium at an altitude of 1,000 ft. A conventional radar altimeter would have indicated only the slope of the stadium; the laser picked out each row of seats, the one-foot space between each row, and even the slight depression of the running track at ground level. In no more than 20 years, Physicist Schawlow predicts, the laser will be a common tool "in the office, in the factory, and in the home, where it could be used for peeling potatoes...
...just may. Fosbury, 21, a senior at Oregon State University, has been racking up victory after victory this year with the most preposterous high-jumping technique ever devised. Approaching the bar, he plants his right foot, spins a full 180°, and launches himself backwards into the air. Experts are at a loss to explain why the "Fosbury Flop" works. "I wouldn't advise anybody else to try it," says Oregon State Coach Berny Wagner. But it sure does the trick for Dick. Last month Fosbury cleared 7 ft. 2 1/4 in. to win the N.C.A.A. championship, and last...
...Democratic presidential nomination, and when L.B.J. was offered the vice-presidency by John F. Kennedy, Thornberry was one of the first friends he called for advice. "What do you think I should say?" asked Johnson. Why Lyndon," replied Homer, "I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Minutes later, Thornberry reconsidered, phoned Johnson back. "Lyndon, said "I was wrong. You ought to take the vice-presidency." Three years later he was at Johnson's side in Parkland Memorial Hospital when Kennedy was pronounced dead. The new President turned to Thornberry, declared gravely: "This is a time...
...feel that religious education has lost its moorings; some charged that new catechisms recently introduced into parochial schools are heretical. For all their zeal, the Wanderers concede that they are fighting a lonely battle to preserve the true faith. "Orthodoxy is now on the run," said one speaker, "its foot soldiers in disarray...