Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Theater tryout she met a young lawyer, Dick Nixon. They were cast in the leading roles of The Dark Tower, and Lawyer Nixon immediately began a dogged, offstage courtship. He learned to dance, nearly fractured his skull trying to ice skate-and according to an oft-told story, he even drove Pat to dates with other young men in Los Angeles, waiting around to drive her home...
...world's No. 1 bobsledder is a coal-and-ice dealer from Cortina, Italy. Eugenio Monti, 32, broke both legs in a skiing accident years ago; one cheek is deeply scarred from a splintering crash two years ago at St. Moritz, when his sled turned a double-somersault. "Brakes?" snorts Monti. "You should use them only to stop at the finish...
...context, the sentence read: "A satanically majestic experiment in living, Caligula continually stirs interest and then finds its temperature falling." And Walter Kerr also wrote: "The evening seems like the four whirring wheels of a high-powered automobile racing immobile on ice ... Scene by scene, the footfall is familiar, the measured tread monotonous...
...Ice. In Bristol, England, Barbara Rogers, 19, newly elected Temperance Queen of Bristol, returned her crown and robes, admitted: "I had my first drink at a Christmas party, and since then I have had alcohol several times." Scenic Wonders. In Cavite province, the Philippines, officials posted on billboards huge blowups of 50 of their most wanted criminals, on second thought took them all down for fear they might scare off tourists...
Died. Marcel Schein, 57, one of the world's top cosmic-ray experts, who has sent balloons equipped with photographic plates 100,000 ft. up to record collision of the highest energies known to man; of a heart attack suffered while ice skating; in Chicago...