Word: legging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, Brazilian rock stars were content with aping the antics of the Beatles or the Monkees. One of them, Roberto Carlos, had a wooden leg, but that never stopped him from cavorting around in psychedelic fashion through jungles, or perching atop the giant Cristo statue on Sugarloaf Mountain above Rio and Copacabana beach. He would sing sugar-candy love songs and had a huge teenybopper following, but if you were really with it you listened to Sergeant Pepper's instead...
...absence of able-bodied runners enabled Eichner, tri-captain Jeff Campbell, and John Chafee to compete for the role of "Six-Million Dollar Man". Eichner did his distance double, and Campbell had to run the 1000, mile, and a leg of the two-mile relay. Chafee got all the middle-distance events that were left--the 600-yd. run and the mile relay--and joined Campbell...
...Fast Leg...
Mary Ellen Mangano turned in one of the strongest individual performances of the day, clocking a 27.8 in her leg of the 200-yard freestyle relay. Walsh said that performance may have earned Mangano a spot on the relay team...
...seems incredible that in such a short time she could have learned enough to win the one-meter diving event against Dartmouth. She credits much of her success to her gymnastics background which she said helped her "body control, leg and toe position, and body extension...