Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brawls in the Falmouth-Hyannis area of Cape Cod, Mass., in which 160 young people were arrested -among them James Collins, 19, from Wethersfield, Conn., on charges of killing Stephen Gilligan of Newton, Mass, (whom he had never seen before) by hitting him so hard with a table leg that pieces of it penetrated his skull...
...Former West German President Theodor Heuss, 79, in Stuttgart's Katharinenhospital, in serious condition after the amputation of his left leg (above the knee) because of gangrene due to a blood clot; California's Democratic Senator Clair Engle, 51, in Washington's Doctor's Hospital after surgery for the removal of "a small amount of brain tissue" which was thought to be the cause of muscle spasms in his right leg...
...Boeing 720s that United has already converted into one-class service, five passengers are seated abreast instead of the uncomfortably crowded six in jet coach service; the cabin is free of the usual class-dividing partitions. The new seats are two inches wider than in coach, and the leg room between seat rows has been slightly increased. A one-class 720 seats 109 passengers, ten fewer than in the usual two classes. Three stewardesses serve the passengers instead of the four on mixed planes. The meals are free, but the emphasis is on substantial food (chicken, lamb chops) instead...
...Bynum knows all these dangers (he has suffered a broken leg, a broken wrist, and "a few horns in the gut"), but he carefully balances caution against the daring needed to win. "I know they're always going to have a rodeo next week," he smiles. "I'm not going to do anything to get myself hurt." Alabama-born, Big Jim has been bull-dogging almost 20 years, now grows cotton on a farm near Dallas. He tends it carefully in good years and leaves it readily when the sun-withered crop is poor. "They say they...
...Broken Leg. The Dillingham empire began when New England-born Benjamin Franklin Dillingham, first officer on a schooner, broke his leg in a fall from a horse while visiting Hawaii in 1865-and watched his ship sail away without him. Making the best of things, he married a missionary's daughter, bought a hardware store and gradually expanded his holdings into lands, crops, herds and a highly profitable railroad. Son Walter expanded the empire further with Hawaiian Dredging and Construction, the cornerstone of the corporation today. The Dillinghams helped build U.S. Pacific airstrips before and during World...