Word: ft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house itself has undergone considerable renovation since the Nixons bought it in July for $340,000. The somber interior has been brightened and refurnished with provincial pieces by Mrs. Nixon. The tennis court has been replaced by a 22-by-44-ft. swimming pool. Security has been guaranteed by 1,500 ft. of new fencing and several observation posts constructed in the same tile-roofed style as the villa's main buildings. Spotlights have been installed on the bluff to illuminate the ocean at night. Even the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., whose line runs along the base...
...this devastating attack is Carew. He is a slim (6 ft., 170 Ibs.), graceful line-drive hitter who tops all major-league batsmen with a sparkling .356 average. Cat-quick, he has already tied a major-league mark by stealing home seven times this season. Behind him in the batting order comes Killebrew, 33, a chunky (6 ft., 210 Ibs.), balding veteran of 15 years in the majors, who is one of the most feared long-ball hitters in the game (total career home runs: 428). The very fact that Carew gets on base so often has helped Killebrew pile...
...Queens, she met her future husband, Photographer Steven Gera. Their courtship had some rough innings. "While we were dating, he wanted to go dancing or to a movie, the normal things," says the 5-ft. 2-in. brunette. "I wouldn't go out unless we went to Rockaway Park where I could throw and hit baseballs at the concession stands." The couple finally made it to the altar, but marriage did not diminish Bernice's enthusiasm for baseball. "One night in 1967," she says, "I awoke at 2:30 a.m. with an idea. Why not umpire...
...seamed, leathery face seems an extension of his saddle. A handshake lets the visitor know how a baseball feels when it is swallowed by Frank Howard's glove. True, the unwigged forehead goes clear back to his crown, but the size-18 neck defies collars, and at 6 ft. 4 in. and 244 Ibs., Wayne remains gristly underneath the adipose. Even so, Wayne is a bit like Clark Kent waiting to change into Superman. The real man seems to be the one onscreen. Up there, equipped with a rug and a role, 60 feet tall and stereophonic, he assumes...
...made his second discovery when, with the assistance of the islanders, he dug three huge trenches in the rubbled slopes of Rano-Raraku. The largest of them was 48 ft. deep and 225 ft. long. At every level the diggers found modi stacked upon modi-Maziere believes that at least as many statues lie in the grainy earth of Easter Island as stand upon it. Some of the buried figures are the most massive yet found, and not a few preserve nuances of modeling that wind and weather have long since stripped from the giants on the headland. Unfortunately, before...