Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thatcher left her final meeting in Peking with China's senior leader, Deng Xiaoping, only to stumble face first on the broad stairs. The unintended symbolism of the spill in full view of television cameras was not missed. On her arrival in Hong Kong Sunday, on the last leg of a two-week Asian tour, the Prime Minister faced a barrage of local criticism that she had got off on the wrong foot in the opening round of Sino-British talks over the future of the crown colony...
DIED. Monty Stratton, 70, "aw shucks" Texas farm boy who inspired The Stratton Story, a bathetic Hollywood biography starring James Stewart as the White Sox pitching ace whose career seemingly ended when his leg was amputated after a hunting accident in 1938, but who strapped on an artificial limb and returned eight years later as a winning minor-league pitcher; of lung cancer; in Greenville, Texas. When the film debuted in 1949, Stratton drawled: "It's my life, all right. I'll just hope folks will think it was worth making into a movie...
...stick in the mud, either. Though he's winless in three starts on Big Red so far this season, he knows he's got the horses (Harmon, Menapace and Miller) to win anytime out of the gate, providing Big Red doesn't come up with a burn leg (which forced him to bow out in the second half of last week's race) Blackman may also be in trouble if the air is clear and the skies are not cloudy...
...energetic, talkative San Diego native, St John insists her artificial leg is not a handicap for her Remembering her first day on skis, she says. "I was apprehensive only because I was just learning The people I was with were great skiers and I didn't want to let a beginner hold them back...
...roommate E. Anne Beal '86 also downplays St. John's unusual condition. "She's not really impaired at all." Beal says. "She rides her bike, she dances, she studies--she has more coordination on one leg than I have...