Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mirror of his shame: And in the privacy of his brain, quiet in the glare of all that sound and spotlight, Mailer thought quietly, "My God, that is probably exactly what you are at this moment, Lyndon Johnson with all his sores, sorrows, and vanity squeezed down to five foot eight," and Mailer felt for the instant possessed, as if he had seized some of the President's secret soul...
Shaw paced his teammates to a 4:22 mile mark, and then, as if by plan, turned the lead and pacing duties over to Baker. Shaw dropped out of the race a quarter-mile later with a minor foot injury...
...lunar features are volcanic in origin. Since volcanic formations on earth contain hydrous rocks, Green reasons, they may well exist on the moon. Merely heating such rocks to between 500°F. and 800°F., he says, will release as much as a gallon of water per cubic foot of rock...
...pleading for his life before the head orangutan (Maurice Evans), who wants him gelded and then melded into the tribe of cavemen. Aided by two empathetic chimpanzees (Roddy MacDowall and Kim Hunter), Heston eventually makes his escape across forbidden territory where no monkey hand has ever set foot. There he learns the dreadful secret of why evolution has been reversed, and why simians, not men, rule this most earthlike sphere...
Skip Hare leaped 23' 1 1/4"--his best ever--for first place in the broad jump. Bob Galliers, who went 23' 2" in the Big Three meet last Saturday, had trouble with foot faults and took third...