Word: ices
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hurl myself into the breach in defense of Paul Ricard, inventor of the finest drink since sour mash [Feb. 25]. Your reporter, probably an undercover man for the W.C.T.U., has slandered the drinking man's Thomas Edison in saying that ice added to Ricard's pastis turns the licorice into a gooey glob. I modestly claim the record for annual consumption by an American of this delightful brew, and have yet to find a single glob in any of my well-iced drinks. Retract your calumny against this benefactor of mankind...
...Mariner II, passing within 21,600 miles of the planet in 1962, radioed back data indicating that Venus' surface was dry, dead, and very hot-perhaps 800° F. Later sightings through telescopes mounted on high-altitude balloons led other scientists to believe that Venus' clouds contained ice or steam, touching off a new argument about what is on the planet...
...skate until she was nine. When she won her first (of three) U.S. championship in 1964, experts were as impressed by her girlish grace and pleasant looks as by her acrobatics and technique. "Peggy is not a fiery skater," said Dick Button. "She is a delicate lady on the ice." And at Davos, it figured to take more than delicacy to surpass Canada's defending champion Petra Burka. Only four times in the 60-year history of the event had a defender failed to repeat. "Petra should do it again," Button predicted, "although Peggy could be her closest challenger...
...That's it!" exulted a U.S. team official. "Unless Peggy falls flat on the ice she's got it in the bag." Falling was more than a remote possibility, because Peggy's free-skating routine included the usual spins and splits-plus such exacting specialties as a "half one-and-a-half double cherry flip combination" and a "spread eagle-double axel-spread eagle...
...ICE HOCKEY...