Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FULLERTON, CAL., May 10-A crowd of 25,000 is expected here Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. for the first intercollegiate elephant racing championships. Harvard's team of Sonita (the elephant) and Joe Russia (the mahout) has been installed as second favorite on the morning line, at odds...
...m.p.h.. it peaked into a graceful arc. seemed to hover uncertainly for a brief moment, then hurtled downward. Minutes later, its tail skids carved a high rooster tail of dust in the wind-slicked silt of Rogers Dry Lake in California. The plane stopped. "Well." said Test Pilot Joe Walker as he threw off the switches in the cockpit, "there's that one for today." In his X-15, Walker had just streaked to a new altitude record for manned planes: 246.700 ft.-46.7 miles above the earth...
First Ride. Gary Cooper could have played Joe Walker. Walking as though he were wearing cowboy boots. Walker lards his speech with sounds like "Yup," "I reckon." and "Haw!" and claims that he is just "a physicist who travels." He grew up on a 200-acre farm near the Pennsylvania coal-mining town of Washington...
Princeton came roaring back--quick goals by Bob Kent and Allen made the score 4-1 at the quarter. In the second period Ernie Dreher upped the Tiger edge to 5-1 but Joe Prahl scored for Haredge to 5-1 but Joe Prahl scored for Harvard to make it 5-2. With time running out in the half, Allen slipped through the Crimson defenses. He scored with 30 seconds remaining to push the Tiger lead to four goals...
...pleasant surprise in store for President Kennedy. Landing at West Palm Beach for an Easter vacation, he spied his father awaiting him in a car. It was the first time that Joseph P. Kennedy had been seen so publicly since suffering a stroke last December. Slowly, Old Joe raised his left arm in greeting. The President reached into the car, affectionately clasped his father's hand. Then he slipped behind the steering wheel, drove off for ten days of Florida relaxation-and reflection...