Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Huge, smiling statues of Buddha dot the landscape, and saffron-robed Buddhist monks are everywhere. Wearing scarlet jackets, gold and silver beads and bracelets and flowers in their hair, the Laotian women are graceful and attractive and given to music, dancing and proverbs. At nightlong parties, they dance the Lap Ton to a harmonious, high-pitched, 17-hole flute called the Ken. It is said that French officers, after a tour of duty in Laos, remain forever afterward vaguely inattentive and quietly dissolute in manner. But last week the French had put aside love and proverbs for a hard look...
...host posed in the background with the Air Force's Major General Emmett ("Rosey") O'Donnell. On a couch sat Dwight Eisenhower holding Spencer Bedell Marx, 3½. Under Secretary of State Lieut. General Walter Bedel! Smith held Emmett Dwight Marx, 2½, and squirming on the lap of General George Marshall was Bradley Marshall Marx, 14 months. Later, Godfather Eisenhower invited everyone to finish the party at his house on Pennsylvania Avenue...
Some 13,000 paying customers ranged along the course were soon getting their money's worth. Roaring up the beach straightaway on the first lap, the pack hit close to 115 m.p.h., slowed to 60 for the first turn. Some cyclists failed to hit their brakes hard enough, approaching the curves, and skidded against the railings. As they jockeyed back into the path of their onrushing rivals, officials frantically waved red warning flags, and the crowd squealed...
...rough third of their success, count for the rest on their cycles and their luck. Some of this year's hotshots were out of the running early. The No. 1 favorite, wispy Bobby Hill of Columbus, Ohio, winner of five top races last year, went out on Lap 10 with a dead magneto. Five laps later the defending champion, 23-year-old Dick Klamfoth of Groveport, Ohio, plowed into another cycle. He was hurtled into the trackside brush and walked away with nothing worse than bruises, but his English-made Norton was wrecked...
Earlier in the evening, Emerson stayed with the Blue's O'Connor until the last lap, when the Ell junior opened a comfortable lead to win the 100-yard breaststroke. O'Connor did 1:00.5 for a pool record, Emerson was timed in 1:02.9. The Crimson's Ralph Zani, third in the 200 breaststroke, took fifth in the shorter distance, although his time was better than the fourth place finisher...