Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter for some months. The fact is, he has been running all over the world-first to Western Europe and Russia, then to Asia for a 21-day swing through Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and South Viet Nam. Last week, Nixon was off to Latin America on the third leg of an international marathon, which, he tells friends, should make him the nation's "best-informed private citizen on world affairs." The trip will continue in Africa and the Middle East next month. By his own hopeful timetable, it should end with his nomination by the Republican Convention next year...
Those that do reach hospitals often get there just in time to have an arm or leg amputated. "Patients pack their wounds with water buffalo dung, and, by the time they get to a doctor, amputation is the only alternative," Dr. Constable explained...
Running the third leg of the mile relay, Dave McKelvey slaughtered Dave Gialson of Princeton on the backstretch to give Harvard a lead it never lost. In the "slow" heat, Harvard pulled out the win by clocking a 3:14.1 -- .2 seconds better than Cornell's time in the second heat. The quartet of Frank Snowden (49.7), Shooter Haggerty (48.8), Dave McKelvey (47.5), and Jeff Huvelle (48.1) tied the Harvard record set last year in the Heps...
...Union side is perhaps more unattractively vivid. Fort Pillow's second-ranking officer is Major Will Bradford, who before the war was a Northern sympathizer in plantation climes. A sleazy, ambitious, jake-leg lawyer, he had run unsuccessfully for the state legislature and vainly courted Good Old Southern Family belles. With secession, he joined the Union army. Knowing clearly enough that no matter who wins the war he will be forced to leave his homeland hills in the end, Bradford lives "in a dry bitterness...
...yard relay team of Andy Cahners, Bill Jewett, Randy Thompson, and Wayne Anderson scored Harvard's key victory. Running second leg, sophomore Jewett burst into a decisive lead and wrapped up the five-point victory...