Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picnic in Pennsylvania. On his plane heading for his meeting with the Pennsylvania delegation, Ike breakfasted off a tray balanced on a pillow on his lap, then went forward and sat in the pilot's seat. At Harrisburg, Governor John Fine welcomed him. At his farm three miles from Gettysburg, Ike had a happy reunion with his old friend Arthur Nevins, a retired brigadier general who runs the place (189 acres, twelve Holsteins, ten Guernseys, 500 chickens) while Ike is away. From New York Ike had phoned: "I'm coming down for a picnic. Don't sell...
Last week Coppi wound up another comeback try in the Giro d'ltalia, a tough, 2,500-mile course, whose 20 laps, raced in 20 days, run over the steep, curling roads of the Alps and Apennines. On the lap from Rome to Rocca di Papa, all uphill, Coppi, his legs pumping like pistons, spurted from eighth to second place. From then on, Coppi's fervent fans hysterically paved his way with flowers, sloshed buckets of water on their sweating idol, painted slogans along the route ("Fausto, you are the only king left...
...some of the spectators were complaining that Coppi spoiled the suspense. But his delirious fans waited six hours at the Milan finish line last week to welcome their comeback hero, who took down the 1,000,000-lire ($1,600) first prize, plus 285,000 lire in bonuses for lap leads. What was more, Coppi set a new Giro d'ltalia speed record: 34.6 kilometers an hour (21.6 m.p.h...
...wheels, breaking down regional barriers, and filling the air with its sputtering roar. Whole families ride a scooter. While the father drives, and one or two children stand on the tiny floorboard between his seat and the handlebars, the mother sits behind, often with a baby in her lap. Scooters have also spawned Italy's biggest new postwar industry. The 517,456 scooters turned out since war's end already outnumber Italy's autos. This year the industry will turn out another 300,000 for a gross of around $75 million...
...moviemakers' jargon, a "lap dissolve" consists of a movie scene slowly fading out while the next scene builds up right on top of it. According to M-G-M Production Boss Dore Schary, one of history's most fascinating lap dissolves happened in 1620 when the Pilgrims on the good ship Mayflower faded out at Plymouth, England, and appeared 96 days later, anchored off what was to be Plymouth, Mass. Nearly two years ago Schary set M-G-M Scripter Helen Deutsch to digging into all the facts and legends about the Pilgrims' mysterious voyage. The result...