Word: matting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiny cluster of about 100 shacks on stilts noted more for the rice whisky its inhabitants produce than for anything else. But the Ban Ban area is dotted with camouflaged antiaircraft batteries designed to protect the key bridge near by, a 50-yd.-long span across the Nam Mat River used by the Reds in their supply line from North Viet Nam. When the Communists shot down a camera-carrying jet, the U.S. started sending armed escorts. When one of the latter was downed, U.S. fighter-bombers clobbered the offending Palhet Lao guns. Recon sweeps continued, and when fired upon...
Suddenly, Brooks rolled Storie over just before the buzzer sounded. As the crowd in the IAB stood up and roared, the referee awarded Brooks two points for the reversal and three for the near-fall, giving him a 13-11 victory. The two wrestlers sprawled on the mat, forgotten in the tumult, until Harvard Coach Bob Pickett rushed out and exuberantly raised Brooks' hand...
Founder and moving spirit of the E.A.A. is Paul H. Poberezny, 43, of Hales Corners, Wis., whose constituents mostly call him "Poop Deck" because who can manage "Poberezny"? Poberezny, who is deputy commander of matériel, 128th Air Refueling Group, Wisconsin Air National Guard, learned to fly at 14 in a glider, flew both fighters and bombers in World War II and Korea. He has built five planes himself. In 1953 he founded the E.A.A. with a group of like-minded friends. "Aviation is one of the last frontiers of individual thinking," he says, "where a man with...
Before Christmas vacation, Harvard beat M.I.T., finished fifth in the Coast Guard Academy Tournament, and lost to Franklin and Marshall 15-14. During the F and M meet, Jeff Hall's opponent twice lifted him from the mat and slammed him down again. In Pickett's opinion, both slams should have cost the F and M wrestler penalty points, but only one of the violations was called. Had the referee awarded Hall both penalties, the match and the meet would have gone to Harvard...
...controversy arose when Hostetter of F and M lifted Harvard's Jeff Hall off the mat and slammed him down again in the first period of their 167-pound match. Despite loud protests from the Harvard bench, the referee refused to award Hall a penalty point...