Word: hops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice. His utter devotion to the experiment earned him the flight. Said he with a grin: "Maybe I'm a link between Ham the Space Chimp and man." Whatever the reasons, it was Shepard who was chosen by National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials for the first, historic hop. Slayton and Cooper busied themselves with communications; Schirra and Carpenter flew jet chase planes over the range; Slayton and Grissom were on hand to greet their buddy at Grand Bahama Island; John Glenn was the back-up man and checked out the capsule...
Azikiwe is also an excellent hop, and jump man, and is favored to win the Heptagonal at this year. (The hop skip and is not and event in dual meets at this time...
...hop, step and jump also looks bright. Azikiewe, doing 45 feet consistently, is a good pick for the IC4A Heptagonal winner this year. Alan Albright, an advance standing sophomore, has also been doing well. In the pole vault, Tom Blodgett is expected to clear 14 feet this year, high enough to give the Crimson a solid first in every meet. There is no one else on the squad, however, who can come within two feet of this mark...
...near the ceiling of Rio's gaudy old Municipal Theater, gay armadas of dangling colored disks swayed in a rising fog of tobacco smoke and perfumed ether. On the floor below, three dance bands, thousands of voices, brigades of clinking bottles and the hypnotic hop of feet endlessly sambaing built a solid wall of sound. In the midst of the jammed dancers, 24-year-old Gilda Lopes, clad in a Queen of Sheba wisp of gauze and sequins, shimmied deliriously on a table top, drinking in masculine ogles as a parched field drinks the spring rain. She lost...
...Quartet and around them, in predominantly green and purple practice clothes, moved the members of the New York City Ballet company, including Soloists Diana Adams, Melissa Hayden, John Jones, Arthur Mitchell. The dancing for the most part was sinuous and tentative, borrowing some of its movements from the Lindy Hop, but on the whole avoiding the Lindy's frenzied exuberance. Schuller's score was the essence of the "cool"-spare, fragmentary, resembling jazz only in its rhythmic drive. Like some of Schuller's other recent work, it represented an attempt to weld jazz and classical music...