Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rocky is a happy, energetic campaigner. In the past two weeks alone, he has lost 10 lbs. He winks and grins and small-talks his way through crowds, often forgetting people's names but not letting it bother him: "Hiya . . . Best of luck and all the way ... Hi, girls, that's the way ... Gee, great... I wanta tell ya, yes, sir." Last week Rockefeller and Wife Happy danced to The Sidewalks of New York on a sidewalk in Cincinnati, while a friendly crowd gathered around...
...five-minute walk from the offices of power. The riots that flared last spring in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination and the disruptions caused by the Poor People's Campaign virtually emptied the Willard of tourists. Last week the management, having lost $1,250,000 since 1965 and unable to meet its bills, abruptly shut down what Sandburg called "the conversation capital of the United States...
...famed symbol-set with 16 small diamonds and worth about $700-from his limo while he was performing in the Boston suburb of Framingham. It was something of a temptation, being mounted on the left rear fender where any passerby could pry it loose. But not all was lost. The rascal didn't get the second candelabra on the other side, so there's still some light amid the darkness...
...Thomas in the Virgin Islands when a monster blue crashed the bait on his ul tralight 12-lb.-test line. Spire was so discombobulated that he "bird's-nested" his reel; the line snapped. "It's just as well," he sighed. "Otherwise I would have lost all that good line...
...glanced out," he recalls, "and there was this s.o.b., coming like blazes with his mouth wide open. I struck him, and that brute jumped 19 times." It took Fishman 3 hrs. 28 min. to boat the marlin. At the dock four hours later (during which time it undoubtedly lost weight by dehydration), the marlin measured 13 ft. 1 in. in length and tipped the scales at 845 lbs.-a new world record...