Word: likelies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial period in which to find success or failure. She won $3,000 on a TV talent show, was booked by Broadway Impresario Lou Walters into his brassy Latin Quarter. Diahann was an instant hit, shared top billing with the changeable Christine Jorgensen, who taught Diahann how to bow like a lady ("Darling, like so . . ."). At 19 she drew raves as Ottilie (alias Violet), the naive young girl in the Truman Capote-Harold Arlen musical House of Flowers. She also married the show's casting director, Monte...
Center: Max Baughan, 21, Georgia Tech; 6 ft. 1 in., 212 lbs. Major: industrial management. "Seems to make more tackles than most teams do. Can make it on offense or defense." The pros also like Center Carl Kammerer of the College of the Pacific, a husky linebacker (6 ft. 3 in., 240 lbs.) who did not play a minute this year because of a broken leg, but showed them more than enough a year...
Tackle: Lou Cordileone, 22, Clemson; 6 ft., 245 lbs. Major: education. "May fill out more, and has the speed of a back. Looks like a pro defensive tackle...
Alone in his boat, the burly driver was grinning like a schoolboy. On a trial run, his speedometer had climbed past 260 m.p.h. as he shot his new jet-powered, aluminum-hulled Tempo-Alcoa over the startling blue surface of Nevada's Pyramid Lake. Driver Les Staudacher knew that the sleek water monster he had designed was ready for an official try at the world record of 260.35 m.p.h. held by Britain's Donald Campbell and his Bluebird...
...breeze stirred sharp ruffles on Pyramid Lake. The chop broke the normal suction grabbing at the hull, turned the water into a fast-running surface. Tempo-Alcoa did not slow, instead seemed to take off at a speed that made the rudder all but useless. Says Staudacher: "It was like skidding on ice. When I saw that rocky shore coming, I believed this was the end of my life...