Word: gloriously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take the White House swimming pool, once F.D.R.'s pride and joy. It used to have one wall with windows. But no longer. The windows have been filled in and in their place, as a gift from the President's father, is a mural depicting a glorious sunset scene of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. To keep dampness from peeling the sunset off the wall, Joe Kennedy had a special exhaust fan system installed...
...longer decides the national championship, as it did for many years. Nor does the Harvard-Yale contest now pit the country's greatest players against each other in a head-to-head competition, as was the case for three fabulous seasons between 1929 and 1931. In those last glorious days of football at the two colleges Crimson quarterback Barry Wood and Eli halfback Albie Booth staged battles that were watched by every sports fan in the land...
...pilot's identity. Peking, which last July had offered a reward of 8,000 ounces of gold (value $280,000) to any Nationalist pilot who would defect with his U-2 intact, boasted that this one had been "shot down" by an air force unit, but supplied no glorious details of the feat...
Japan, having had a fling at making its own westerns (starring Jo Shishido, whom studio admen modestly call the "third fastest gun in the world"-after Gary Cooper and Alan Ladd), is still watching 20 U.S.-made western serials on television. In two glorious years, though, Nikkatsu studios turned out nearly 30 eastern westerns, starting with The Quickdrawer and finally losing heart with Mexican Vagabond this year. Mexico was the nearest Nikkatsu dared come to the real thing. Said a studio spokesman: "We have too great respect for American cowboys to invade the real wild West...
...feeling of glorious relief overtakes you, and then you relax. You are alone in the sky, and all is quiet...