Word: hops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lamont, by one device or another, managed to get to his sources. Having coffee with "Glit" Shields of the Columbia, he noticed that Shields had a clarinet with him, was on his way to a teen-age hop to play at intermission. "I asked him if he needed a piano player, and he said 'Great.'" Over some Benny Goodman tunes, Lamont wangled a trip on the Columbia. "Glit had me playing the mainsheet like a yoyo, and what I thought would be a free ride ended up a workout...
Shaken Government. As the plane neared London, last stop before the hop across the Atlantic, Soblen stabbed himself in the abdomen with a steak knife while McShane was out of the compartment. Soblen was not attempting to commit suicide; he was trying to wound himself just enough to be hospitalized in Britain, thereby gaining time to try to obtain asylum...
Where the Soviets will shine is in the high jump, the distance races (5,000 and 10,000 meters), the javelin, and in such curiosities in the U.S. as the hop-step-and-jump, the walking race and the steeplechase. They also boast strong men in the broad jump and discus: Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, who recently broke Ralph Boston's broad jump record with a prodi gious leap of 27 ft. 3 in., and Vladimir Trusenev, who last month set a new discus record of 202 ft. 2½ in. But the U.S.'s Boston will be tough...
...contributed four key points by talking second and third behind Jay Luck of Yale in a 9.9 100. Both edged out Bulldog Wendell Mottley, seemingly a sure bet for second place even though he had run--and won--the 440 in 48.6 ten minutes before. Armstrong also took the hop, step, and jump...
...next hitter, Jerry Siack, slapped a grounder to center. It should have been a single, but the ball took a kangaroo hop over Gavin Gllmor's head. Slack settled for a triple, but he scored on an error by shortstop Terry Bartolet...