Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wearing grey coveralls, with a .38 pistol slung low on his left hip and a knife strapped to his leg, Mac the Fac arrives at his base strip around 7:30 a.m., gets briefed, then buzzes off in search of the enemy. He flies low, and traveling with him is an unsettling experience. Says an ex-passenger, "When you're riding with him, it sounds like a popcorn machine-there's so much stuff coming...
...search began for subtler ways to control an AMU (Astronaut Maneuvering Unit). Some of them, such as motions of the leg, feet, head or torso, were quickly rejected by Honeywell engineers as too difficult for an astronaut floating in a clumsy space suit. Somewhat more attractive was control by the astronaut's eye movements. A photocell watching the position of the eyeball could steer the astronaut to any target at which he looked steadily. But such control would not be enough. The astronaut would sometimes want to move backwards, and in any case he must always have his eyes...
...worried about his wife, who's expecting their third child, and bothered by his back, which was aching so badly that he wore a special orthopedic lift in one shoe (his right leg is 1 in. shorter than the left). Nicklaus, however, was the 4-1 betting favorite over the likes of four-time Champion Arnold Palmer (6-1) and South Africa's Gary Player (8-1), who had worked himself into a fine frenzy for the Masters by lifting weights, eating wheat germ, and boning up on Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking...
Unfortunately, Gates reinjured his leg in the Penn game and will miss today's catch and possibly Saturday's at Cornell as well. Defenseman Dan Calderwood and Harry Van Oudenallen, both still recovering from injuries, will start, but may not be able to play much this afternoon...
...that BOURBON BLUE looks like a promising longshot in today's featured eighth race. He's a seven-year-old cheaple, but has the speed to lead every step of the way. CHIEF MASHPEE could pay a long price in the sixth, and MACEDONIA would have to break a leg to lose in the ninth...